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<title abbrev='Distinguished Names'>A String Representation of Distinguished Names (OSI-DS 23 (v5))</title>
<author initials='S.' surname='Hardcastle-Kille' fullname='Steve Hardcastle-Kille'>
<organization>ISODE Consortium</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>POB 505</street>
<city>London</city>
<region>England</region>
<code>SW11 1DX</code>
<country>UK</country></postal>
<phone>+44 71 2234062</phone>
<email>S.Kille@ISODE.COM</email></address></author>
<date month='July' year='1993' />
<abstract>
<t>The OSI Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to entries in the directory.  Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1. When a distinguished name is communicated between to users not using a directory protocol (e.g., in a mail message), there is a need to have a user-oriented string representation of distinguished name.  This specification defines a string format for representing names, which is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used names, whilst being able to represent any distinguished name.  Please send comments to the author or to the discussion group &lt;osi-ds@CS.UCL.AC.UK.&gt;</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1485' />
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