Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway
From: cjr@xtel.co.UK (Colin Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: X.500 name-space question
Message-ID: <9101100545.aa04574@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 10 Jan 91 14:12:48 GMT
Lines: 23
Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of 09 Jan 91 01:10:50 +0000. <47920016@hpindda.cup.hp.com>



   >Single root:
   >
   >    /C=US/O=HP/OU=HP-UK/OU=LABS
   >	      /OU=HP-FR/OU=LABS
   >	      /OU=HP-US/OU=LABS


   >    (Or something along those lines)
   >
   >The latter would keep the entire HP name space, now and into the future,
   >in one subtree of the name space.  Note that this in no way imposes a
   >structure on the actual distribution of subtrees across DSAs, machines,
   >or countries.  If fact, it makes perfect since in this case for the
   >naming context (subtree) holding the "French" data to be in physically
   >France, even though the naming prefix is /C=US/O=HP....

If I am a user trying to find an entry for somebody I know works
for HP in France, how would I know that I actually had to look under
the c=US node, and not the c=FR node ?

Colin