!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([draft-sermersheim-ldap-subordinate-scope]) is an [Internet Draft] specification for [LDAP Search Scopes|LDAP Search Scopes] that specifies that the [Search Request] which constrains the search scope to all subordinates of the named base object, and does not include the base object (as [wholeSubtree] does).  

These reasons range from the obvious utility of allowing an [DUA] application the ability to exclude the base object from a wholeSubtree search scope, to distributed operation applications which require this scope for progressing search sub-operations resulting from an nssr DSE type reference.

The subordinateSubtree scope is applied to the SearchRequest.scope field, the <scope> type and alternately the <extension> type of the [LDAP] [URL] ([RFC 2255]) and may be applied to other specifications which include an [LDAP Search Scope].

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[{$pagename}] is __NOT__ an [IANA Registry] entry but is supported by several [LDAP Server Implementations]
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A sample [DIT] illustrating the [{$pagename}] scope with a search base DN of "dc=example,dc=com" is given below:

[{Image src='SubordinateSubtree/subordinateSubtree-scope.png' width='..' height='..' align='left' }]
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