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Re: Question about DNs

1993-06-12 18:01:00
Yup, an RDN is a *set* of AVAs.  There can be only one occurrence of
an attribute in this set, so an RDN is a (partial) function from
attributes to their corresponding ranges.  A DN is a sequence of RDNs.

What does all this mean?  Well, it's a bit untamed.  Most folks have
been using just one AVA per RDN, which is isomorphic to a list.
However, it's been argued that multiple AVAs per RDN are useful in
some contexts.

I think we're in for some chaos for a while.

Steve

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