Re: A philosophical question about large directory structures

Thomas,

I agree that namespaces have to be unique, but I *also* believe they should
make sense to users.  Granted, *some* host names are user-friendly, but
many are not.

In the specific example you mention, I would suggest that {o=Sun
Microsystems, c=ch} is a reasonable and guessable namespace.  I would not
venture to guess what your hostname is.

Cheers,                  ....Erik.

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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
Enterprise Directory Engineering
http://www.geotrain.com

At 23:41 99/06/23 +0200, Thomas Lenggenhager wrote:
>On Wednesday, 23 Jun 1999, Erik Skovgaard writes:
>> The DC namespace is poorly suited for the Directory since the Internet host
>> names are not all guessable.  For instance, if I were to look up Canadian
>> Airlines, I would have to *know* that the hostname is 'cdnair.com'.
>
>We are going a bit off track with these messages about namespace.
>
>The namespace should mainly be unique. That would be provided by DC.
>Finding something should not be tried to achieve by guessing the right
>name, but by searching for it (index/directory).
>
>> Since the Directory name registration is closely tied to the legal names of
>> companies in most countries, I think that makes for a much better choice.
>> I would rather find Canadian Airlines as {o=Canadian Airlines, c=ca} than
>> the somewhat cryptic {dc=cdnair, dc=com}.
>
>And how about the official name of Canadian Airlines in French and the
>DN you proposed?
>
>What is the official name of a company?
>	Acme	or Acme Inc.	or Acme, Inc.
>
>Just as an example of quite ugly and non-guessable names, the official
>name of Sun in Switzerland:
>	Sun Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
>
>Thomas
>
>