AS 4019.

7—1992
ISO/IEC 9594-7:1990

Australian Standard
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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
The Directory

Part 7: Selected object classes

 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee IT/1, Information Systems—
Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on
2 March 1992 and published on 16 April 1992.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

AUSSAT
Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies
Australian Bankers’ Association
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Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Confederation of Australian Industry
CSIRO—Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Department of Defence
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce
Information Exchange Steering Committee
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OTC
Standards Association of New Zealand
Telecom Australia

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 AS 4019.7—1992

Australian Standard
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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
The Directory
Part 7: Selected object classes

First publi shed as AS 4019.7—1992.

Incorporating:
Amdt 1—1996

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 7433 X
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Information Systems—
Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 9594-7:1990, Information
technology—Open Systems Interconnection—The Directory—Part 7: Selected object classes.
The Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are currently
under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor difficulties
encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be providing, through the
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For the purpose of this Australian Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’
wherever they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to Australian
Standards as follows:
Reference to International Australian Standard
Standard or other Publication
ISO AS
7498 Information Processing Systems—Open 2777 Information processing systems—Open
Systems Interconnection—Basic Refer- Systems Interconnection—Basic refer-
ence Model ence model
ISO/IEC
9594 Information Technology—Open Systems 4019 Information technology—Open Systems
Interconnection—The Directory Interconnection—The Directory
9594-1 Part 1: Overview of Concepts, Models 4019.1 Part 1: Overview of concepts, models
and Services and services
9594-2 Part 2: Models 4019.2 Part 2: Models
9594-8 Part 8: Authentication Framework 4019.8 Part 8: Authentication framework

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CONTENTS

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SECTION 1: GENERAL 4

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3 Definitions and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.1 OSI Reference Model Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Directory Model Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

4 Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

SECTION 2: SELECTED OBJECT C LASSES

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5 Definition of Useful Attribute Sets . . . . . . . .. .. . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5

5.1 Telecommunication Attribute Set . ... . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5
5.2 Postal Attribute Set . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5
5.3 Locale Attribute Set . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5
5.4 Organizational Attribute Set . . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5

6 Definition of Selected Object Classes . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . .. 5

6.1 Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . .. 5
6.2 Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 5
6.3 Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 5
6.4 Locality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 6
6.5 Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . .. .. . . ... . . ... . . .. 6
6.6 Organizational Unit . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . ... . . .. 6
6.7 Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . .. .. . . ... . . .. . . . .. 6
6.8 Organizational Person . . . . . . . .. .. . . ... . . . .. . . . ... . . .. 6
6.9 Organizational Role . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . ... . . .. 6
6.10 Group of Names . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 6
6.11 Residential Person . . . . . . . . . .. ... . . ... . . ... . . ... . . .. 7
6.12 Application Process . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . ... . . .. 7
6.13 Application Entity . . . . . . . . . .. ... . . ... . . ... . . ... . . .. 7
6.14 DSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 7
6.15 Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 7
6.16 Strong Authentication User . . . . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . .. 7
6.17 Certification Authority . . . . . . ... .. . .... . . ... . . ... . . .. 8

Annex A—Selected Object Classes in ASN.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Annex B—Suggested Name Forms and DIT Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Information technology—Open Systems

Interconnection—The Directory

Part 7:
Selected object classes

SECTION 1: GENERAL

1 Scope ISO/IEC 9594-1:1990, Information Technology—Open

Systems Interconnection—The
1.1 This part of ISO/IEC 9594 defines a number of Directory—Part 1: Overview of
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selected attribute sets and object classes which may Concepts, Models and Services.
be found useful across a range of applications of the
Directory. The definition of an attribute set involves ISO/IEC 9594-2:1990, Information Technology—Open
identifying the attributes that it contains, and faci- Systems Interconnection—The
litates the definition of object classes.The definition Directory—Part 2: Models.
of an object class involves optionally allocating an
Object Identifier to it, and listing a number of attri- ISO/IEC 9594-8:1990, Information Technology—Open
bute types which are relevant to objects of that class. Systems Interconnection—The
These definitions are used by the administrative Directory—Part 8: Authentication
authority which is responsible for the management of Framework.
the Directory information.

1.2 Any Administrative Authority can define its own

object classes or subclasses for any purpose.
Notes
3 Definitions and Abbreviations
1. These defi niti ons may or may not use the notati on specif ied
in ISO/IEC 9594-2.
2. It is recommended that an object class defi ned in this 3.1 OSI Reference Model Definitions
document, or a subclass deri ved from one, be used in preference
to the generati on of a new one, whenever the semantics is
appropri ate for the appli cati on. This part of ISO/IEC 9594 makes use of the following
1.3 Administrative authorities may support some or definition from ISO 7498:
all the selected object classes, and may also add
object classes. a) application-entity.
All Administrative authorities shall support the object
classes which the directory uses for its own purpose b) application-process.
(the top, alias and DSA object classes).

3.2 Directory Model Definitions

2 Normative references This part of ISO/IEC 9594 makes use of the following
The following standards contain provisions which, definitions from ISO/IEC 9594-2:
through reference in this text, constitute provisions of
this part of ISO/IEC 9594. At the time of publication, a) attribute;
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are b) attribute type;
subject to revision, and parties to agreements based
on this part of ISO/IEC 9594 are encouraged to c) Directory Information Tree (DIT)
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent d) Directory System Agent (DSA).
editions of the standards listed below. Members of
IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently valid e) attribute set
International Standards. f) entry;
g) name;
ISO 7498:1984, Information Processing, Systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— h) object class;
Basic Reference Model. i) subclass.

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