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        RFC 1384:

        Title:      Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots
        Author:     P. Barker & S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
        Mailbox:    P.Barker@CS.UCL.AC.UK, S.Kille@ISODE.COM
        ASCII-Pages:  12		PS-Pages:  10        
        ASCII-Characters:  25,870	PS-Characters:  175,044 
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


Deployment of a Directory will benefit from following certain
guidelines.  This document defines a number of naming guidelines.
Alignment to these guidelines is recommended for directory pilots.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute