RE: A philosophical question about large directory structures

Actually, you are confirming my point: you can't use domain names as DNs in
the Directory.

The registration issue is obviously there.  In Canada we are currently
setting up the registration process and it will be tied to legally
registered names.  If the company name is only registered in a province,
the name will fall under the {st=<province>, c=ca} branch.  I the company
is federally registered, the name will fall under the {c=ca} branch.

If we are going to make the Directory useful to people, we have to try and
design a namespace that is understandable to people.  I do not think the
host domain name always falls into that category.

Cheers,                 ....Erik.

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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
Enterprise Directory Planning & Training
http://www.geotrain.com

At 18:06 99/06/23 +0100, Dave  J Woolley wrote:
>> From:	Erik Skovgaard [SMTP:[email protected]]
>> 
>> 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 don't think you can rely on this.  At one time domain
>	names in the UK were tied to legal names, but, once name
>	registration was privatised, names became a valuable commodity,
>	and you even got companies buying up names speculatively.
>
>	To guarantee well behaved names in the long term, you really
>	need legislation or a government agency; formation of the 
>	latter is against the trend in the Western world.
>
>	About the only commercial entities with an interest in 
>	administering a well behaved namespace are people like
>	Verisign.
>
>