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PROPOSED STANDARD

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RFC 2253

Author:

K. Zeilenga, Ed.

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IETF

Source:

ldapbis (app)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4514

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Abstract

The X.500 Directory uses distinguished names (DNs) as primary keys toentries in the directory. This document defines the stringrepresentation used in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP) to transfer distinguished names. The string representation isdesigned to give a clean representation of commonly used distinguishednames, while being able to represent any distinguished name. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.