Summary

X.500 Directory tackled global-scale naming head-on

This drove its naming standards,
and contributed to its lack of global success

LDAP began as X.500 access protocol

But now LDAP-based directory service is being applied to a different problem: system management;
this drives its object representation and naming

LDAP has internal namespace-scaling issues, too

Regarding schema standardization, references,
and use of ASN.1 OIDs vs strings for naming protocol elements