Default FNS Enterprise Namespaces

The FNS enterprise policies deal with the arrangement of enterprise objects within the namespace. Each enterprise objects has its own namespace.

By default, there are seven FNS enterprise objects and namespaces:

• Organization (orgunit). Entities such as departments, centers, and divisions. Sites, hosts, users, and services can be named relative to an organization. The XFN term for organization is organizational unit. When used in an initial context the identifier org can be used as an alias for orgunit.

• Site (site). Physical locations, such as buildings, machines in buildings, and conference rooms within buildings. Sites can have files and services associated with them.

• Host (host). Machines. Hosts can have files and services associated with them.

• User (user). Human users. Users can have files and services associated with them.

• File (fs). Files within a file system.

• Service (service). Services such as printers, faxes, mail, and electronic calendars.

• Printer (service/printer). The printer namespace is subordinate to the service namespace.

Figure 22-1 shows how these enterprise namespaces are arranged.

Figure 22-1 What FNS Policies Arrange

Some of these namespaces, such as users and hosts, can appear more than once in a federated namespace.

The policies that apply to these namespaces are summarized in Table 22-2.