Enterprise Namespace Identifiers

Enterprise namespaces are referred to by their atomic names in the federated enterprise namespace.

XFN uses leading underscore ("_") characters to indicate an enterprise namespace identifier. For example, _site. FNS also supports the use of these identifiers without the leading underscore ("_") character. These names without the underscore are extensions to the XFN policies. The site and printer contexts are also extensions to the XFN policies. These atomic names are listed in Table 22-1.

Table 22-1 Enterprise Namespace Identifiers in the Enterprise

Namespace	XFN Identifiers	FNS Identifiers	Resolves to
Organization	_orgunit	orgunit or org	Context for naming organizational units
Site	_site	site	Context for naming sites
Host	_host	host	Context for naming hosts
User	_user	user	Context for naming users
File system	_fs	fs	Context for naming files
Service	_service	service	Context for naming services
Printer		printer	Context for naming printers, (subordinate to service namespace)

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Note -

In XFN terminology, the names with the leading underscore are the canonical namespace identifiers. The names without the underscore are namespace identifies that have been customized for the Solaris environment. These customized namespace identifiers, with the addition of printer, might not be recognized in non-Solaris environments. The canonical namespace identifiers are always recognized and so are portable to other environments.

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Component Separators

The XFN component separator (/) delimits namespace identifiers. For example, composing the namespace identifier orgunit with the organizational unit name west.sales gives the composite name, orgunit/west.sales.