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INTERNET-DRAFT Editor: Kurt D. Zeilenga
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Intended Category: Standard Track OpenLDAP Foundation
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Expires in six months 27 October 2003
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Obsoletes: 2253
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LDAP: String Representation of Distinguished Names
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<draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt>
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Status of Memo
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This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
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provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
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This document is intended to be, after appropriate review and
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revision, submitted to the RFC Editor as a Standard Track document
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replacing RFC 2253. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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Technical discussion of this document will take place on the IETF LDAP
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Revision (LDAPBIS) Working Group mailing list
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<ietf-ldapbis@openldap.org>. Please send editorial comments directly
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to the document editor <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>.
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Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task
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Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
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time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
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material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
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Please see the Full Copyright section near the end of this document
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for more information.
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 1]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
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Abstract
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The X.500 Directory uses distinguished names (DNs) as primary keys to
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entries in the directory. This document defines the string
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representation used in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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(LDAP) to transfer distinguished names. The string representation is
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designed to give a clean representation of commonly used distinguished
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names, while being able to represent any distinguished name.
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Conventions
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
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"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
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document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119].
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1. Background and Intended Usage
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In X.500-based directory systems [X.500], including those accessed
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using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) [Roadmap],
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distinguished names (DNs) are used to unambiguously refer to directory
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entries [X.501][Models].
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The structure of a DN [X.501] is described in terms of ASN.1 [X.680].
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In the X.500 Directory Access Protocol [X.511] (and other ITU-defined
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directory protocols), DNs are encoded using the Basic Encoding Rules
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(BER) [X.690]. In LDAP, DNs are represented in the string form
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described in this document.
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It is important to have a common format to be able to unambiguously
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represent a distinguished name. The primary goal of this
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specification is ease of encoding and decoding. A secondary goal is
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to have names that are human readable. It is not expected that LDAP
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implementations with a human user interface would display these
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strings directly to the user, but would most likely be performing
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translations (such as expressing attribute type names in the local
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national language).
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This document defines the string representation of Distinguished Names
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used in LDAP [Protocol][Syntaxes]. Section 2 details the RECOMMENDED
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algorithm for converting a DN from its ASN.1 structured representation
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to a string. Section 3 details how to convert a DN from a string to a
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ASN.1 structured representation.
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While other documents may define other algorithms for converting a DN
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from its ASN.1 structured representation to a string, all algorithms
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MUST produce strings which adhere to the requirements of Section 3.
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 2]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
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This document does not define a canonical string representation for
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DNs. Comparison of DNs for equality is to be performed in accordance
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with the distinguishedNameMatch matching rule [Syntaxes].
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This document is an integral part of the LDAP Technical Specification
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[Roadmap].
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This document obsoletes RFC 2253. Changes since RFC 2253 are
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summarized in Appendix B.
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This specification assumes familiarity with X.500 [X.500], and the
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concept of Distinguished Name [X.501][Models].
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2. Converting DistinguishedName from ASN.1 to a String
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X.501 [X.501] defines the ASN.1 [X.680] structure of distinguished
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name. The following is a variant provided for discussion purposes.
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DistinguishedName ::= RDNSequence
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RDNSequence ::= SEQUENCE OF RelativeDistinguishedName
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RelativeDistinguishedName ::= SET SIZE (1..MAX) OF
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AttributeTypeAndValue
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AttributeTypeAndValue ::= SEQUENCE {
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type AttributeType,
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value AttributeValue }
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This section defines the RECOMMENDED algorithm for converting a
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distinguished name from an ASN.1 structured representation to an UTF-8
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[UTF-8] encoded Universal Character Set (UCS) [ISO10646] character
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string representation. Other documents may describe other algorithms
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for converting a distinguished name to a string, but only strings
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which conform to the grammar defined in Section 3 MUST be produced by
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LDAP implementations.
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2.1. Converting the RDNSequence
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If the RDNSequence is an empty sequence, the result is the empty or
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zero length string.
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Otherwise, the output consists of the string encodings of each
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RelativeDistinguishedName in the RDNSequence (according to Section
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2.2), starting with the last element of the sequence and moving
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backwards toward the first.
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 3]
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The encodings of adjoining RelativeDistinguishedNames are separated by
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a comma ("," U+002C) character.
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2.2. Converting RelativeDistinguishedName
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When converting from an ASN.1 RelativeDistinguishedName to a string,
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the output consists of the string encodings of each
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AttributeTypeAndValue (according to Section 2.3), in any order.
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Where there is a multi-valued RDN, the outputs from adjoining
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AttributeTypeAndValues are separated by a plus sign ("+" U+002B)
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character.
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2.3. Converting AttributeTypeAndValue
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The AttributeTypeAndValue is encoded as the string representation of
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the AttributeType, followed by an equals ("=" U+003D) character,
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followed by the string representation of the AttributeValue. The
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encoding of the AttributeValue is given in Section 2.4.
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If the AttributeType is defined to have a short name and that short
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name is known to be registered [REGISTRY][BCP64bis] as identifying the
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AttributeType, that short name, a <descr>, is used. Otherwise the
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AttributeType is encoded as the dotted-decimal encoding, a
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<numericoid>, of its OBJECT IDENTIFIER. The <descr> and <numericoid>
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is defined in [Models].
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Implementations are not expected to dynamically update their knowledge
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of registered short names. However, implementations SHOULD provide a
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mechanism to allow its knowledge of registered short names to be
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updated.
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2.4. Converting an AttributeValue from ASN.1 to a String
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If the AttributeType is of the dotted-decimal form, the AttributeValue
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is represented by an number sign ("#" U+0023) character followed by
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the hexadecimal encoding of each of the octets of the BER encoding of
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the X.500 AttributeValue. This form is also used when the syntax of
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the AttributeValue does not have a native string encoding defined for
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it or the native string encoding is not restricted to UTF-8 encoded
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UCS (or a subset of UCS) characters. This form may also be used in
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other cases, such as when a reversible string representation is
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desired (see Section 5.2).
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Otherwise, if the AttributeValue is of a syntax which has a native
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 4]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
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string encoding, the value is converted first to a UTF-8 encoded UCS
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string according to its syntax specification (see for example Section
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6 of [Syntaxes]). If that UTF-8 encoded UCS string does not have any
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of the following characters which need escaping, then that string can
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be used as the string representation of the value.
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- a space (" " U+0020) or number sign ("#" U+0023) occurring at
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the beginning of the string;
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- a space (" " U+0020) character occurring at the end of the
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string;
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- one of the characters """, "+", ",", ";", "<", ">", or "\"
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(U+0022, U+002B, U+002C, U+003B, U+003C, U+003E, or U+005C
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respectively);
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- the null (U+0000) character.
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Other characters may be escaped.
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Each octet of the character to be escaped is replaced by a backslash
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and two hex digits, which form a single octet in the code of the
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character. Alternatively, if and only if the character to be escaped
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is one of
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" ", """, "#", "+", ",", ";", "<", "=", ">", or "\"
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(U+0020, U+0022, U+0023, U+002B, U+002C, U+003B,
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U+003C, U+003D, U+003E, U+005C respectively)
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it can be prefixed by a backslash ("\" U+0005C).
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Examples of the escaping mechanism are shown in Section 4.
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3. Parsing a String back to a Distinguished Name
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The string representation of Distinguished Names is restricted to
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UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded characters from the Universal Character Set
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(UCS) [ISO10646]. The structure of this string representation is
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specified using the following Augmented BNF [RFC2234] grammar:
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distinguishedName = [ relativeDistinguishedName
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*( COMMA relativeDistinguishedName ) ]
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relativeDistinguishedName = attributeTypeAndValue
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*( PLUS attributeTypeAndValue )
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attributeTypeAndValue = attributeType EQUALS attributeValue
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attributeType = descr / numericoid
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attributeValue = string / hexstring
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; The UTF-8 string shall not contain NULL, ESC, or
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; one of escaped, shall not start with SHARP or SPACE,
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; and shall must not end with SPACE.
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string = [ (leadchar / pair)
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[ *( stringchar / pair ) ( trailchar / pair ) ] ]
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leadchar = LUTF1 / UTFMB
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LUTF1 = %x01-1F / %x21 / %x24-2A / %x2D-3A /
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%x3D / %x3F-5B / %x5D-7F
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trailchar = TUTF1 / UTFMB
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TUTF1 = %x01-1F / %x21 / %x23-2A / %x2D-3A /
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%x3D / %x3F-5B / %x5D-7F
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stringchar = SUTF1 / UTFMB
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SUTF1 = %x01-21 / %x23-2A / %x2D-3A /
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%x3D / %x3F-5B / %x5D-7F
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pair = ESC ( ESC / special / hexpair )
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special = escaped / SPACE / SHARP / EQUALS
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escaped = DQUOTE / PLUS / COMMA / SEMI / LANGLE / RANGLE
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hexstring = SHARP 1*hexpair
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hexpair = HEX HEX
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where the productions <descr>, <numericoid>, <COMMA>, <DQUOTE>,
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<EQUALS>, <ESC>, <HEX>, <LANGLE>, <NULL>, <PLUS>, <RANGLE>, <SEMI>,
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<SPACE>, <SHARP>, <UTFMB> are defined in [Models].
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Each <attributeType>, either a <descr> or a <numericoid>, refers to an
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attribute type of an attribute value assertion (AVA). The
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<attributeType> is followed by a <EQUALS> and an <attributeValue>.
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The <attributeValue> is either in <string> or <hexstring> form.
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If in <string> form, a LDAP string representation asserted value can
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be obtained by replacing (left-to-right, non-recursively) each <pair>
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appearing in the <string> as follows:
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replace <ESC><ESC> with <ESC>;
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replace <ESC><special> with <special>;
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replace <ESC><hexpair> with the octet indicated by the <hexpair>.
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 6]
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If in <hexstring> form, a BER representation can be obtained from
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converting each <hexpair> of the <hexstring> to the octet indicated by
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the <hexpair>.
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One or more attribute values assertions, separated by <PLUS>, for a
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relative distinguished name.
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Zero or more relative distinguished names, separated by <COMMA>, for a
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distinguished name.
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Implementations MUST recognize AttributeType name strings
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(descriptors) listed in the following table, but MAY recognize other
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name strings.
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String X.500 AttributeType
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------ --------------------------------------------
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CN commonName (2.5.4.3)
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L localityName (2.5.4.7)
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ST stateOrProvinceName (2.5.4.8)
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O organizationName (2.5.4.10)
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OU organizationalUnitName (2.5.4.11)
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C countryName (2.5.4.6)
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STREET streetAddress (2.5.4.9)
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DC domainComponent (0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.25)
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UID userId (0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1)
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Implementations MAY recognize other DN string representations
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(such as that described in RFC 1779). However, as there is no
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requirement that alternative DN string representations to be
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recognized (and, if so, how), implementations SHOULD only generate
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DN strings in accordance with Section 2 of this document.
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4. Examples
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This notation is designed to be convenient for common forms of
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name. This section gives a few examples of distinguished names
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written using this notation. First is a name containing three
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relative distinguished names (RDNs):
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UID=jsmith,DC=example,DC=net
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Here is an example name containing three RDNs, in which the first
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RDN is multi-valued:
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OU=Sales+CN=J. Smith,DC=example,DC=net
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This example shows the method of escaping of a comma in a common
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 7]
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name:
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CN=John Smith\, III,DC=example,DC=net
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An example name in which a value contains a carriage return
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character:
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CN=Before\0dAfter,DC=example,DC=net
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An example name in which an RDN was of an unrecognized type. The
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value is the BER encoding of an OCTET STRING containing two octets
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0x48 and 0x69.
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1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=#04024869,DC=example,DC=com
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Finally, an example of an RDN commonName value consisting of 5
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letters:
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Unicode Letter Description UCS code UTF-8 Escaped
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------------------------------- -------- ------ --------
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LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L U+004C 0x4C L
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LATIN SMALL LETTER U U+0075 0x75 u
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LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON U+010D 0xC48D \C4\8D
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LATIN SMALL LETTER I U+0069 0x69 i
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LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE U+0107 0xC487 \C4\87
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could be written in printable ASCII (useful for debugging purposes):
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CN=Lu\C4\8Di\C4\87
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5. Security Considerations
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The following security considerations are specific to the handling of
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distinguished names. LDAP security considerations are discussed in
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[Protocol] and other documents comprising the LDAP Technical
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Specification [Roadmap].
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5.1. Disclosure
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Distinguished Names typically consist of descriptive information about
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the entries they name, which can be people, organizations, devices or
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other real-world objects. This frequently includes some of the
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following kinds of information:
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- the common name of the object (i.e. a person's full name)
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- an email or TCP/IP address
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- its physical location (country, locality, city, street address)
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- organizational attributes (such as department name or affiliation)
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Most countries have privacy laws regarding the publication of
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information about people.
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5.2. Use of Distinguished Names in Security Applications
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The transformations of an AttributeValue value from its X.501 form to
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an LDAP string representation are not always reversible back to the
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same BER (Basic Encoding Rules) or DER (Distinguished Encoding rules)
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form. An example of a situation which requires the DER form of a
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distinguished name is the verification of an X.509 certificate.
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For example, a distinguished name consisting of one RDN with one AVA,
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in which the type is commonName and the value is of the TeletexString
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choice with the letters 'Sam' would be represented in LDAP as the
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string CN=Sam. Another distinguished name in which the value is still
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'Sam' but of the PrintableString choice would have the same
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representation CN=Sam.
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Applications which require the reconstruction of the DER form of the
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value SHOULD NOT use the string representation of attribute syntaxes
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when converting a distinguished name to the LDAP format. Instead,
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they SHOULD use the hexadecimal form prefixed by the number sign ('#')
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as described in the first paragraph of Section 2.3.
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6. Acknowledgment
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This document is an update to RFC 2253, by Mark Wahl, Tim Howes, and
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Steve Kille. RFC 2253 was a product of the IETF ASID Working Group.
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This document is a product of the IETF LDAPBIS Working Group.
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7. Document Editor's Address
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Kurt D. Zeilenga
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OpenLDAP Foundation
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<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
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8. Normative References
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[X.501] International Telecommunication Union -
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Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "The Directory
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 9]
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-- Models," X.501(1993) (also ISO/IEC 9594-2:1994).
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[X.680] International Telecommunication Union -
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Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "Abstract
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Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) - Specification of Basic
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Notation", X.680(1997) (also ISO/IEC 8824-1:1998).
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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Requirement Levels", BCP 14 (also RFC 2119), March 1997.
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[RFC2234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
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Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997.
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[UTF-8] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
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10646", draft-yergeau-rfc2279bis-xx.txt, a work in
|
||
progress.
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[Models] Zeilenga, K. (editor), "LDAP: Directory Information
|
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Models", draft-ietf-ldapbis-models-xx.txt, a work in
|
||
progress.
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[Roadmap] Zeilenga, K. (editor), "LDAP: Technical Specification
|
||
Road Map", draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-xx.txt, a work in
|
||
progress.
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||
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[Protocol] Sermersheim, J. (editor), "LDAP: The Protocol",
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||
draft-ietf-ldapbis-protocol-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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||
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||
[Syntaxes] Legg, S. (editor), "LDAP: Syntaxes and Matching Rules",
|
||
draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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||
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||
[Schema] Dally, K. (editor), "LDAP: User Schema",
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||
draft-ietf-ldapbis-user-schema-xx.txt, a work in
|
||
progress.
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||
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||
[ISO10646] International Organization for Standardization,
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||
"Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -
|
||
Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane", ISO/IEC
|
||
10646-1 : 1993.
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[REGISTRY] IANA, Object Identifier Descriptors Registry,
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||
<http://www.iana.org/...>.
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9. Informative References
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||
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[ASCII] Coded Character Set--7-bit American Standard Code for
|
||
Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986.
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Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 10]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
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[X.500] International Telecommunication Union -
|
||
Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "The Directory
|
||
-- Overview of concepts, models and services,"
|
||
X.500(1993) (also ISO/IEC 9594-1:1994).
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||
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||
[X.690] International Telecommunication Union -
|
||
Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "Specification
|
||
of ASN.1 encoding rules: Basic Encoding Rules (BER),
|
||
Canonical Encoding Rules (CER), and Distinguished
|
||
Encoding Rules (DER)", X.690(1997) (also ISO/IEC
|
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8825-1:1998).
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||
[RFC2849] Good, G., "The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) -
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||
Technical Specification", RFC 2849, June 2000.
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||
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||
[BCP64bis] Zeilenga, K., "IANA Considerations for LDAP", draft-
|
||
ietf-ldapbis-bcp64-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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||
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||
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||
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||
Appendix A. Presentation Issues
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||
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||
This appendix is provided for informational purposes only, it is not a
|
||
normative part of this specification.
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||
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||
The string representation described in this document is not intended
|
||
to be presented to humans without translation. However, at times it
|
||
may be desirable to present non-translated DN strings to users. This
|
||
section discusses presentation issues associated with non-translated
|
||
DN strings. Presentation of translated DN strings issues are not
|
||
discussed in this appendix. Transcoding issues are also not discussed
|
||
in this appendix.
|
||
|
||
This appendix provides guidance for applications presenting DN strings
|
||
to users. This section is not comprehensive, it does not discuss all
|
||
presentation issues which implementors may face.
|
||
|
||
Not all user interfaces are capable of displaying the full set of UCS
|
||
characters. Some UCS characters are not displayable.
|
||
|
||
It is recommended that human interfaces use the optional hex pair
|
||
escaping mechanism (Section 2.3) to produce a string representation
|
||
suitable for display to the user. For example, an application can
|
||
generate a DN string for display which escapes all non-printable
|
||
characters appearing in the AttributeValue's string representation (as
|
||
demonstrated in the final example of Section 4).
|
||
|
||
When a DN string is displayed in free form text, it is often necessary
|
||
|
||
|
||
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||
Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 11]
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||
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||
INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
|
||
|
||
|
||
to distinguish the DN string from surrounding text. While this is
|
||
often done with white space (as demonstrated in Section 4), it is
|
||
noted that DN strings may end with white space. Careful readers of
|
||
Section 3 will note that characters "<" (U+003C) and ">" (U+003E) may
|
||
only appear in the DN string if escaped. These characters are
|
||
intended to be used in free form text to distinguish a DN string from
|
||
surrounding text. For example, <CN=Sam\ > distinguished the string
|
||
representation of the DN comprised of one RDN consisting of the AVA:
|
||
the commonName (CN) value "Sam " from the surrounding text. It should
|
||
be noted to the user that the wrapping "<" and ">" characters are not
|
||
part of the DN string.
|
||
|
||
DN strings can be quite long. It is often desirable to line-wrap
|
||
overly long DN strings in presentations. Line wrapping should be done
|
||
by inserting white space after the RDN separator character or, if
|
||
necessary, after the AVA separator character. It should be noted to
|
||
the user that the inserted white space is not part of the DN string
|
||
and is to be removed before use in LDAP. For example,
|
||
|
||
The following DN string is long:
|
||
CN=Kurt D. Zeilenga,OU=Engineering,L=Redwood Shores,
|
||
O=OpenLDAP Foundation,ST=California,C=US
|
||
so it has been line-wrapped for readability. The extra white
|
||
space is to be removed before the DN string is used in LDAP.
|
||
|
||
It is not advised to insert white space otherwise as it may not be
|
||
obvious to the user which white space is part of the DN string and
|
||
which white space was added for readability.
|
||
|
||
Another alternative is to use the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
|
||
[RFC2849]. For example,
|
||
|
||
# This entry has a long DN...
|
||
dn: CN=Kurt D. Zeilenga,OU=Engineering,L=Redwood Shores,
|
||
O=OpenLDAP Foundation,ST=California,C=US
|
||
CN: Kurt D. Zeilenga
|
||
SN: Zeilenga
|
||
objectClass: person
|
||
|
||
|
||
Appendix B. Changes made since RFC 2253
|
||
|
||
This appendix is provided for informational purposes only, it is not a
|
||
normative part of this specification.
|
||
|
||
The following substantive changes were made to RFC 2253:
|
||
- Removed IESG Note. The IESG Note has been addressed.
|
||
- Clarified (in Section 1) that this document does not define a
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 12]
|
||
|
||
INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
|
||
|
||
|
||
canonical string representation.
|
||
- Revised specification (in Section 2) to allow short names of any
|
||
registered attribute type to appear in string representations of
|
||
DNs instead of being restricted to a "published table". Remove
|
||
"as an example" language. Added statement (in Section 3) allowing
|
||
recognition of additional names but require recognization of those
|
||
names in the published table. The table is now published in
|
||
Section 3.
|
||
- Replaced specification of additional requirements for LDAPv2
|
||
implementations which also support LDAPv3 (RFC 2253, Section 4)
|
||
with a statement (in Section 3) allowing recognition of
|
||
alternative string representations.
|
||
- Updated Section 2.3 to indicate attribute type name strings are
|
||
case insensitive.
|
||
- Updated Section 2.4 to allow hex pair escaping of all characters
|
||
and clarified escaping for when multiple octet UTF-8 characters
|
||
are present.
|
||
- Rewrote Section 3 to use ABNF as defined in RFC 2234.
|
||
- Rewrote Section 3 ABNF to be consistent with 2.4.
|
||
- Updated Section 3 to describe how to parse elements of the
|
||
grammar.
|
||
- Rewrote examples.
|
||
- Added reference to documentations containing general LDAP security
|
||
considerations.
|
||
- Added discussion of presentation issues (Appendix A).
|
||
- Added this appendix.
|
||
|
||
In addition, numerous editorial changes were made.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||
Zeilenga LDAP: Distinguished Names [Page 13]
|
||
|
||
INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt 27 October 2003
|
||
|
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|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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