A String Representation of Distinguished Names
RFC 1779, “A String Representation of Distinguished Names”, is a Historic document published in March 1995 by S. Kille. It obsoletes RFC 1485. It has been obsoleted by RFC 2253, RFC 3494 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The OSI Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to entries in the directory. Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1. When a distinguished name is communicated between to users not using a directory protocol (e.g., in a mail message), there is a need to have a user-oriented string representation of distinguished name. This specification defines a string format for representing names, which is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used names, whilst being able to represent any distinguished name. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Historic” means
A specification that has been superseded or is otherwise no longer recommended for use.
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