Identifying Branch Points - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Designing Your Directory Tree
Branching in a Hosting Environment
For a hosting environment, create a tree that contains two entries of the object class
organization(o)
beneath the root suffix. For example, the ISP
shown below.

Identifying Branch Points

As you decide how to branch your directory tree, you will need to decide what
attributes you will use to identify the branch points. Remember that a DN is a
unique string composed of attribute-data pairs. For example, the DN of an entry
for Barbara Jensen, an employee of
cn=Barbara Jensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
Each attribute-data pair represents a branch point in your directory tree. For
example, the directory tree for the enterprise
follows:
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and one entry of the
organizationalUnit(ou)
example.com
branches their directory as
example
Corporation, appears as follows:
Corporation appears as
example.com
object class