*** Hmm cant one use L(ocation) = Internet
as this does not imply organizational hierarchocal dependence
L=Europe has been used for EEC-funded collaborative programmes
Maybe. It was my understanding that L refers to physical locations rather
than virtual locations.
The latest version of my ideas use the DC component for everything,
including the top-level domain name. I've dropped O=Internet, or some
variant thereof, and I've also dropped the country translations. So,
my e-mail address now becomes:
DC=au, DC=edu, DC=qut, DC=fit, CN=rhys
This is in line with Steve Kille's X.500-to-DNS mappings in an RFC whose
number I forget at the moment (1274? 1279?). The only difference is the
use of CN instead of DC for the last component so that DN's for domains
and DN's for e-mail addresses can be distinguished.
The reason for dropping the country translations is that I realised that
they'd very quickly become a problem. There had to be hacks for the US
domains, and I then remembered that the country code for Britian is "GB",
not "UK", so more hacks would be needed, and more and more as our world's
political climate fluctuates. Making it a DC instead is "safer" IMHO.
I'm preparing an Internet Draft on this to make it more formal to get
constructive criticism happening on the merits or otherwise of the proposal.
Cheers,
Rhys.