On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, T|nnes Brekne TFX wrote:
Donald E. Eastlake writes:
> [...]
> Almost nothing in the real world uses Distinguished Names. Most DN schemes
> are crap based on the futile idea of a universal X.500 dirctory. They are
> useless until you map them to something real like URL's which introduces
all
> the problems of the storage, access to, and maintenance of such a mapping.
A good example of a real world "DN" is the ISBN number given to
printed material. This is an example of a "DN" scheme that for all
practical purposes appears to work. Unfortunately, it isn't easy to
read any semantic content out of an ISBN number.
At one time PC in the computer context meant any Person Computer. But
now its means some curious intersection of Intel and MicroSoft.
Possible DN had some more general and benign meaning at one time but this
days it means some the type complex "naming" object whose string
representation is some grotesquery full of /'s, ='s, etc., like
/C=Atlantis/O=.../OU=.../x=y/phase-of-the-moon=.../...
...
tonnes(_at_)nta(_dot_)no
Donald
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