[dev] preferences naming is not ldap compliant.

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> wrote:

> Quoting Dominic Ijichi <dom@ijichi.org>:
> 
> > 3) Who is responsible for getting an OID? It takes a couple of weeks to
> > get one, can we ask someone to start the process?
> 
> What's an OID?

LDAP uses a big numerical hierarchical tree (just like SNMP).  OID is
"object identifier" which is basically the numerical identity.  Each LDAP
object and attribute name down the tree is mapped to one.  Each
organization has to register a section of the tree, just like a DNS
address etc., if they want to make the schema public.

Example from an old Netscape LDAP server schema (so you can see how long
these numbers get):

# Used by Netscape Directory Server
attribute       mailForwardingAddress   2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.17 cis
attribute       mailHost                2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.18 cis
attribute       mailQuota               2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.21 cis
attribute	mailRoutingAddress      2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.47 cis

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