RFC 1779: A String Representation of Distinguished Names

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…

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Outgoing relationships (1 related RFC)

Obsoletes — RFC 1485: A String Representation of Distinguished Names (OSI-DS 23 (v5))

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 2253: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
Obsoleted by — RFC 3494: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 2 (LDAPv2) to Historic Status
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4520: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3383: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3182: Identity Representation for RSVP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1781: Using the OSI Directory to Achieve User Friendly Naming
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1836: Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree