The following figure shows what a part of the DCE global namespace could look like. Levels in the tree of entries are numbered; the global root is at Level 0. The GDS structure rules as defined for DCE allow only country name entries at the next level under the root; organization name and locality name entries can exist at the level below a country name. An organizational unit name can be a child of an organizational name entry, and a common name can be a child of a locality name. The details of the GDS rules for the valid types and locations of entries in the directory tree can be found in the OSF DCE Administration Guide.
The object entry /C=US/O=OSF/OU=DCE belongs to the Organizational Unit class. One of the object's values is the CDS server binding information that is used to reach the cell from other DCE cells. The entire name is an attribute of the object that it refers to, as is the CDS server binding information that it contains.
GDS Namespace Entries and Directory Objects
