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=.../...
No, Donald, it really doesn't. The MasterCard SEPP spec is a good example --
the DN is a short pseudonym. DNs CAN look like admittedly horrible X.400 ORAs,
but they DON'T HAVE TO. It's up to the DSA administrator to decide what schema
will be supported. And in any case you are compalining about the the X.400
business card representation of an address rather than the way any decent X.500
DUA would present the information in a GUI.
But then again I said I wasn't going to revisit this argument -- I never learn.
You owe me that beer, or vice versa.
Bob
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