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[Keith Hazelton <>]

This suits me fine.   I penned that eduPerson arc suggestion before  
seeing RL's "this is just a terminology clash, then."  post.     --Keith
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On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 16:02 America/Chicago, Scott Cantor wrote:

> > If the eduperson arc is out, how about "*:attribute-name:cn" etc.  
> > since
> > we seem to agree that what these things like "cn" and "mail" are are
> > short names for attribute types (types in the X.520 sense).
>
> After talking to Bob, the one that seemed the most agreeable to us was  
> attribute-def, since he prefers attribute-type, and I prefer
> attribute. "name" bothered me a little, since the URI isn't really  
> representing just the name of an attribute but it's definition
> and semantics in a particular context.
>
> So we're looking at using a flat namespace of attribute-defs, with  
> colons as the seperator.
>
> urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:cn
> urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:eduPersonPrincipalName
>
> I think we would recomment others define attributes by registering a  
> namespace with MACE, and then using
> urn:mace:<namespace>:attribute-def:<name> or something similar, but  
> obviously others may be less bothered by these religious
> arguments and just pick something.
>
> -- Scott
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