>>> Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt; schrieb am 10.12.2014: >> I thought the LDAP _protocol_ uses OIDs everywhere, and names are just for >> human users...? > > Nope. One could regard this as design deficiency (in comparison to X.500). > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4512#section-2.5 I couldn't quite read it from there: The closest match I found was: "oid = descr / numericoid", but I was talking about the "on wire" protocol of LDAP. Are there really named objects and attributes?