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        RFC 2253

        Title:      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):
		    UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
	Author(s):  M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes
        Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       December 1997
        Mailbox:    M.Wahl@critical-angle.com, S.Kille@isode.com  
		    howes@netscape.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 18226
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2253.txt

The X.500 Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to
entries in the directory.  Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1
in the X.500 Directory protocols.  In the Lightweight Directory 
Access Protocol, a string representation of distinguished names is
transferred.  This specification defines the string format for 
representing names, which is designed to give a clean representation 
of commonly used distinguished names, while being able to represent 
any distinguished name.

This document is a product of the Access, Searching and Indexing of
Directories Working Group of the IETF.
 
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
 
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
standardization state and status of this protocol.  Distribution
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