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- Network Working Group S. Kille
- Request for Comments: 2247 Isode Ltd.
- Category: Standards Track M. Wahl
- Critical Angle Inc.
- A. Grimstad
- AT&T
- R. Huber
- AT&T
- S. Sataluri
- AT&T
- January 1998
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- Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names
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- Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
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- 1. Abstract
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- The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) uses X.500-
- compatible distinguished names [3] for providing unique
- identification of entries.
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- This document defines an algorithm by which a name registered with
- the Internet Domain Name Service [2] can be represented as an LDAP
- distinguished name.
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- 2. Background
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- The Domain (Nameserver) System (DNS) provides a hierarchical resource
- labeling system. A name is made up of an ordered set of components,
- each of which are short strings. An example domain name with two
- components would be "CRITICAL-ANGLE.COM".
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- LDAP-based directories provide a more general hierarchical naming
- framework. A primary difference in specification of distinguished
- names from domain names is that each component of an distinguished
- name has an explicit attribute type indication.
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- X.500 does not mandate any particular naming structure. It does
- contain suggested naming structures which are based on geographic and
- national regions, however there is not currently an established
- registration infrastructure in many regions which would be able to
- assign or ensure uniqueness of names.
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- The mechanism described in this document automatically provides an
- enterprise a distinguished name for each domain name it has obtained
- for use in the Internet. These distinguished names may be used to
- identify objects in an LDAP directory.
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- An example distinguished name represented in the LDAP string format
- [3] is "DC=CRITICAL-ANGLE,DC=COM". As with a domain name, the most
- significant component, closest to the root of the namespace, is
- written last.
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- This document does not define how to represent objects which do not
- have domain names. Nor does this document define the procedure to
- locate an enterprise's LDAP directory server, given their domain
- name. Such procedures may be defined in future RFCs.
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- 3. Mapping Domain Names into Distinguished Names
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- This section defines a subset of the possible distinguished name
- structures for use in representing names allocated in the Internet
- Domain Name System. It is possible to algorithmically transform any
- Internet domain name into a distinguished name, and to convert these
- distinguished names back into the original domain names.
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- The algorithm for transforming a domain name is to begin with an
- empty distinguished name (DN) and then attach Relative Distinguished
- Names (RDNs) for each component of the domain, most significant (e.g.
- rightmost) first. Each of these RDNs is a single
- AttributeTypeAndValue, where the type is the attribute "DC" and the
- value is an IA5 string containing the domain name component.
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- Thus the domain name "CS.UCL.AC.UK" can be transformed into
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- DC=CS,DC=UCL,DC=AC,DC=UK
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- Distinguished names in which there are one or more RDNs, all
- containing only the attribute type DC, can be mapped back into domain
- names. Note that this document does not define a domain name
- equivalence for any other distinguished names.
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- 4. Attribute Type Definition
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- The DC (short for domainComponent) attribute type is defined as
- follows:
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- ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.25 NAME 'dc' EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match
- SUBSTR caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch
- SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26 SINGLE-VALUE )
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- The value of this attribute is a string holding one component of a
- domain name. The encoding of IA5String for use in LDAP is simply the
- characters of the string itself. The equality matching rule is case
- insensitive, as is today's DNS.
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- 5. Object Class Definitions
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- An object with a name derived from its domain name using the
- algorithm of section 3 is represented as an entry in the directory.
- The "DC" attribute is present in the entry and used as the RDN.
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- An attribute can only be present in an entry held by an LDAP server
- when that attribute is permitted by the entry's object class.
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- This section defines two object classes. The first, dcObject, is
- intended to be used in entries for which there is an appropriate
- structural object class. For example, if the domain represents a
- particular organization, the entry would have as its structural
- object class 'organization', and the 'dcObject' class would be an
- auxiliary class. The second, domain, is a structural object class
- used for entries in which no other information is being stored. The
- domain object class is typically used for entries that are
- placeholders or whose domains do not correspond to real-world
- entities.
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- 5.1. The dcObject object class
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- The dcObject object class permits the dc attribute to be present in
- an entry. This object class is defined as auxiliary, as it would
- typically be used in conjunction with an existing structural object
- class, such as organization, organizationalUnit or locality.
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- The following object class, along with the dc attribute, can be added
- to any entry.
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- ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.344 NAME 'dcObject' SUP top AUXILIARY MUST dc )
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- An example entry would be:
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- dn: dc=critical-angle,dc=com
- objectClass: top
- objectClass: organization
- objectClass: dcObject
- dc: critical-angle
- o: Critical Angle Inc.
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- 5.2. The domain object class
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- If the entry does not correspond to an organization, organizational
- unit or other type of object for which an object class has been
- defined, then the "domain" object class can be used. The "domain"
- object class requires that the "DC" attribute be present, and permits
- several other attributes to be present in the entry.
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- The entry will have as its structural object class the "domain"
- object class.
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- ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.4.13 NAME 'domain' SUP top STRUCTURAL
- MUST dc
- MAY ( userPassword $ searchGuide $ seeAlso $ businessCategory $
- x121Address $ registeredAddress $ destinationIndicator $
- preferredDeliveryMethod $ telexNumber $ teletexTerminalIdentifier $
- telephoneNumber $ internationaliSDNNumber $ facsimileTelephoneNumber $
- street $ postOfficeBox $ postalCode $ postalAddress $
- physicalDeliveryOfficeName $ st $ l $ description $ o $
- associatedName ) )
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- The optional attributes of the domain class are used for describing
- the object represented by this domain, and may also be useful when
- searching. These attributes are already defined for use with LDAP
- [4].
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- An example entry would be:
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- dn: dc=tcp,dc=critical-angle,dc=com
- objectClass: top
- objectClass: domain
- dc: tcp
- description: a placeholder entry used with SRV records
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- The DC attribute is used for naming entries of the domain class, and
- this can be represented in X.500 servers by the following name form
- rule.
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- ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.345 NAME 'domainNameForm' OC domain MUST ( dc ) )
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- 6. References
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- [1] The Directory: Selected Attribute Types. ITU-T Recommendation
- X.520, 1993.
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- [2] Mockapetris, P., " Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities,"
- STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.
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- [3] Kille, S., and M. Wahl, " Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names", RFC
- 2253, December 1997.
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- [4] Wahl, M., "A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with
- LDAP", RFC 2256, December 1997.
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- 7. Security Considerations
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- This memo describes how attributes of objects may be discovered and
- retrieved. Servers should ensure that an appropriate security policy
- is maintained.
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- An enterprise is not restricted in the information which it may store
- in DNS or LDAP servers. A client which contacts an untrusted server
- may have incorrect or misleading information returned (e.g. an
- organization's server may claim to hold naming contexts representing
- domain names which have not been delegated to that organization).
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- 8. Authors' Addresses
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- Steve Kille
- Isode Ltd.
- The Dome
- The Square
- Richmond, Surrey
- TW9 1DT
- England
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- Phone: +44-181-332-9091
- EMail: S.Kille@ISODE.COM
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- Mark Wahl
- Critical Angle Inc.
- 4815 W. Braker Lane #502-385
- Austin, TX 78759
- USA
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- Phone: (1) 512 372 3160
- EMail: M.Wahl@critical-angle.com
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- Al Grimstad
- AT&T
- Room 1C-429, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
- Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030
- USA
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- EMail: alg@att.com
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- Rick Huber
- AT&T
- Room 1B-433, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
- Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030
- USA
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- EMail: rvh@att.com
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- Sri Sataluri
- AT&T
- Room 4G-202, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
- Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030
- USA
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- EMail: sri@att.com
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- 9. Full Copyright Statement
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
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