n‘Root’
(starting place/source of the tree)
nCountries
(or TLD e.g. com,org,net)
nOrganizations
(CERN)
nOrganizational
units (departments etc.)
nIndividuals
(includes people, files, and shared resources such as printers)
ne.g. cn=Ray
Jackson,ou=People,o=cern,c=ch
n