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Introduction

Subentries are used for managing the administration of different aspects of the directory. LDAP has just recently formalized the notion of subentires in RFC 3672. Subentries have existed within X.500 Directories for years with clear specifications for administering collective attributes, schema, and access controls. With the exception of managing collective attributes LDAP has no equivalent yet for administering these aspects. However with RFC 3672, LDAP is on its way towards adopting and adapting these mechanisms from X.500 Directories. It is only a matter of time.

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