LDAPWiki: OR-Name

Overview#

OR-Name is a Microsoft Active Directory LDAPSyntaxes defined in Draft-armijo-ldap-syntax-00 with an OID of 1.2.840.113556.1.4.1221

LDAPWiki also found where it is referred to as CaseIgnoreString [1]

OR-Name is also defined as an OID of 2.5.5.7

OR-Name: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.1221
        Encoded as:
        ORName = DN | "X400:" ORaddress "#X500:" DN | "X400:"ORaddress
        DN = normally encoded rfc 1779 name
        ORaddress = some string encoding for OR addresses.

OR-Name requires an unescaped # character MUST NOT be legal in this encoding.
This is necessary to be able to identify where the #X.500 starts if the middle choice of the Encoding is chosen.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

1.2.840.113556.1.4.1221
2.5.5.7
DN Syntax
Microsoft Active Directory Syntax

[#1] - Data Type Mapping between Active Directory and LDAP - based on information obtained 2018-04-15-