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 21-1.
Table 21-1 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) |
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.
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.