Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Distinguished Names
RFC 4514
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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org> Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>, RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, ldapbis mailing list <ietf-ldapbis@openldap.org>, ldapbis chair <ldapbis-chairs@tools.ietf.org> Subject: Protocol Action: 'LDAP:String Representation of Distinguished Names' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following documents: - 'LDAP:String Representation of Distinguished Names ' <draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-17.txt> as a Proposed Standard - 'LDAP: String Representation of Search Filters ' <draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard - 'LDAP: Directory Information Models ' <draft-ietf-ldapbis-models-15.txt> as a Proposed Standard These documents are products of the LDAP (v3) Revision Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Lisa Dusseault. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-17.txt
Technical Summary This document defines the string representation used in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to transfer distinguished names. The string representation is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used distinguished names, while being able to represent any distinguished name. This document will replace RFC 2253; please refer to Appendix B. for the changes since RFC 2253. Working Group Summary This doucment is the product of the LDAPBIS working group. The working group came to consensus on this document, and there were no comments during the IETF-wide Last Call. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie. RFC Editor Note RFC Editor, please move the following reference from Informative to Normative and update the text as described below. [BCP64bis] Zeilenga, K., "IANA Considerations for LDAP", draft-ietf-ldapbis-bcp64-xx.txt, a work in progress. In Section 3. OLD: Implementations MAY recognize other DN string representations (such as that described in RFC 1779). Implementations MAY recognize other DN string representations.