• ITU X.520/ISO 9594-6 "Selected Attribute Types" (1988 Version).
• RFC 1274 "The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema".
The initially defined group of attributes can be regarded as a set of basic requirements for a White Pages service. The emphasis is on attributes used to describe person and role type entries, and to a lesser degree on other entry types, such as organizational unit and organization entries.
Detailed technical descriptions for any referenced attribute can be found in the documents cited above.
commonName
The commonName attribute is a generic naming attribute and is used, in particular, to name person type entries. The name (i.e. RDN value) for person entries should be initials followed by surname, e.g. A J Findlay.
surname
The surname of a person. Some specification work may have to be undertaken to standardize on the handling of "complex" surnames, e.g. O' Brien, in order that search algorithms used by EuroView DUAs will find entries correctly and as expected.
localityName
Entries representing localities are not considered in this document. This attribute maybe used to indicate the locality of an organization or organizational unit.
stateOrProvinceName
This attribute specifies a state (not a country) or province. When used as a component of a directory name, it identifies a geographical subdivision in which the named object is physically located or with which it is otherwise associated. An example of this is when organizational units in an organization are distributed across a number of locations.
organizationName
This attribute is used in the directory name of organization entries.
organizationalUnitName
This attribute is used in the directory name of organizationalUnit entries. Can also be used to further describe other types of entry, for example this attribute could be used to indicate a person's sub-group with a department.
title
The title attribute specifies the designated position or function of the object within an organization.
personalTitle
The personalTitle attribute type specifies a personal title for a person. Examples of personal titles are "Ms", "Dr", "Mlle" and "Rev".
description
The description attribute contains an informal description of the owning entry.
businessCategory
This attribute describes the type of work undertaken by an organization. A number of default values may be defined for sectoral descriptions of EuroView organizations.
postalAddress
This attribute specifies the address of an entity as required for physical delivery of postal mail. Values of this attribute are limited to six lines of, at most, thirty characters.
telephoneNumber
The telephoneNumber attribute type specifies a telephone number associated with a directory entry. Attribute values should follow the E.123 format for international telephone numbers, i.e., "+44 171 123 4567". Extension number may be shown suffixed to the switchboard number, e.g. +44 1895 274000 ext. 2391.
facsimileTelephoneNumber
Contains the FAX telephone number associated with a directory entry. Attribute values should follow the E.123 format for international telephone numbers, i.e., "+44 171 123 4567".
mobileTelephoneNumber
The telephone number of a person's mobile phone. Attribute values should follow the E.123 format for international telephone numbers, i.e., "+44 171 123 4567".
pagerTelephoneNumber
The telephone number for a pager associated with a person or role entry. Attribute values should follow the E.123 format for international telephone numbers, i.e., "+44 171 123 4567".
preferredDeliveryMethod
This attribute states a directory entity's preferred method of receiving communication. Typical values are MHS, physical, G3FAX, etc..
roleOccupant
The role occupant of an entry is the person (or people) who fulfils the role defined by the owning entry. The value of this attribute must be one or more directory names.
seeAlso
The seeAlso attribute is used to name related directory entries. An example would be a seeAlso attribute in a personal entry pointing back to an organizational role entry.
secretary
The secretary attribute is used to name the directory entry of the secretary related to a person or other entity.
userPassword
The userPassword attribute contains the password that the associated user uses to bind to the directory. If access control is in place then users may have certain restricted operations (e.g. the ability to modify his or her own directory entry) available to them.
mhsORAddresses
This attribute contains the X.400 O/R address corresponding to the owning directory entry.
userid
The identifier used by a person to log on to the local system.
rfc822Mailbox
The Internet mail address associated with an entry.
uniqueIdentifier
The uniqueIdentifier attribute type specifies a "unique identifier" for an object represented in the directory. The domain within which the identifier is unique, and the exact semantics of the identifier, are for local definition. For a person, this might be an institution-wide payroll number. For an organisational unit, it might be a department code.
organizationalStatus
The organizationalStatus attribute type specifies a category by which a person is often referred to in an organisation. Examples of usage in academia might include undergraduate student, researcher, lecturer, etc.
mailPreferenceOption
This attribute is used to express a person's policy on e-mail use by external parties, i.e. for inclusion on a mailing list. The set of values for this attribute are:
• No list inclusion.
• Any list inclusion.
• Professional list inclusion.
buildingName
The name of a building in which an organization or organizational unit is based.
accessControlList
This attribute defines the limits placed on access control for reading and update of a given entry. This attribute is specific to the Quipu implementation of X.500. This attribute will become obsolescent when implementations of the 1993 standard, and its associated access control scheme, mature.