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- RFC 1484:
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- Title: Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly
- Naming (OSI-DS 24 (v1.2))
- Author: S. Hardcastle-Kille
- Mailbox: S.Kille@ISODE.COM
- Pages: 25
- Characters: 48,974
- Updates/Obsoletes: none
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- The OSI Directory has user friendly naming as a goal. A simple
- minded usage of the directory does not achieve this. Two aspects not
- achieved are:
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- o A user oriented notation
- o Guessability
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- This proposal sets out some conventions for representing names in a
- friendly manner, and shows how this can be used to achieve really
- friendly naming. This then leads to a specification of a format for
- representing names, and to procedures to resolve them. This leads to
- a specification which allows directory names to be communicated
- between humans. The format in this specification is identical to that
- defined in 1485, and it is intended that these specifications are
- compatible.
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- This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
- It does not specify an Internet standard. Discussion and suggestions
- for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of
- the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state
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