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- From: jinho@iti.gov.sg (Tan Jin Ho)
- Subject: Uniqueness of X.400 address
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.161253.9388@iti.gov.sg>
- Organization: National Computer Board, Singapore
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:12:53 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Hi,
- I am new to the X.400 world. I found out the other day
- that an X.400 (mnemonic) address conists of country, ADMD, PRMD,
- organization, organizational unit, surname, given name, initials,
- and generational qualifier. If this is true, then I am afraid,
- the X.400 address is not unique.
- This is especially true in a Chinese community where
- (1) some surnames are prevalent (e.g. Lim, Lee, Tan);
- (2) there are a few very popular given names (e.g. Guo Hua, Jian Hua, ...)
- (3) generational qualifiers are rare (never see one before)
- (4) no middle name
- How does people handle the uniqueness of X.400 address in this environment
- ? I can think of a simple solution but would like to hear from the net
- (since I'm just starting to look at mail systems).
-
- I was thinking of adding numbers to the name (e.g.
- TAN Guo Hua 1, TAN Guo Hua 2, LEE Guo Hua 1, LEE Guo Hua 2).
- Where is the best place to put the numbers '1' and '2' ?
- The originator uses the name say "Tan Guo Hua" and the user agent (after
- consulting the directory service) will pop up a list of recipients
- (with additional attributes) for the originator to select.
-
- Does this sound like a reasonable solution ? How do people solve
- this problem (I assume somebody else ran into this
- restriction before). The same thing happens to X.500 names too
- right ?
-
- While we are at it, has someone done any work on bringing X.400
- address to the residential environment (street address, locality, ...)
- ? The Red Book mentioned a little about this, but is there any
- implementation that does this ?
-
- Regards,
- Jin-Ho
- jinho@iti.gov.sg
- ^^^^^
- I have 'uncommon' name 8^P
-