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it could easily be a DNS, NIS, or NIS+ name, and it could very well be for a host or a domain. Moreover, while it might seem like chicago.manufacturing.widget.com refers to a subdomain of hosts located in the city of Chicago, assigned to Widget, Inc.'s manufacturing division, it could just as easily refer to a hand held computer on space station Alpha. This ambiguity is a concern to some folks. Hence, X.500 explicitly identifies what each level of hierarchy means. For example, the X.500 distinguished name corresponding to DNS style chicago.manufacturing.widget.com name would be:chicago.manufacturing.widget.com
{ Country = US, Orglanization = Widget, Inc., Organizational Unit = Manufacturing, Location = Chicago }
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