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        RFC 1781:

        Title:      Using the OSI Directory to Achieve User Friendly
                    Naming 
        Author:     S. Kille
        Date:       March 1995
        Mailbox:    S.Kille@ISODE.COM
        Pages:      26
        Characters: 47,129
        Obsoletes:  1484

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1781.txt


The OSI Directory has user friendly naming as a goal.  A simple minded
usage of the directory does not achieve this.  Two aspects not
achieved are:

 o  A user oriented notation
 o  Guessability

This proposal sets out some conventions for representing names in a
friendly manner, and shows how this can be used to achieve really
friendly naming.  This then leads to a specification of a standard
format for representing names, and to procedures to resolve them.
This leads to a specification which allows directory names to be
communicated between humans.  The format in this specification is
identical to that defined in RFC 1779, and it is intended that these
specifications are compatible.  This RFC is the product of the
Access/Synchronization of the Internet Directories Working Group of
the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
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