Apologies for replying out of the thread but I had binned the original one, and then had the thoughts ! If you post my content (assuming you want to reply!), in to the thread then I'll get to see the thread continue, when that messgae appears.

John Lewis <oflameo2(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I am bouncing around a couple of projects that involve collecting and > storing information about Corporations and States. > > Is there a already existing schema that will kind of fit this data in > general? Of hand, the closest one I can think of is inetOrgPerson is the > closest thing, but it is probably a stretch. > > The kind of data is going to be like taking the the top of of > Corporations and State's inetOrgPerson data and stuffing it under one > tree and bundling public data with it such as contracts a company have with a state on record. Have you considered using a domain component (dc=,dc=) based tree, using dot-us as the root, and the two-letter states sub-domains below it dc=ca,dc=us and then putting your corporation in below that, for example o=mycorp,dc=ca,dc=us for the Californian content, in which you "pretend" that the Californian "branch" of your Corporation actually "owns" the mycorp,ca.us domain name? I take the point made by other respondents about not replying on geographical info, however a number of corporations do make use of country-based domain names, for operationsin various theatres, so there is a kind of precedent, within the dc= approach.