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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!penguin!dave
- From: dave@philips.oz.au (David Torr)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.235405.27196@philips.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 23:54:05 GMT
- Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
- Subject: Re: Uniqueness of X.400 address
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Nov7.161253.9388@iti.gov.sg>
- Lines: 55
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- jinho@iti.gov.sg (Tan Jin Ho) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Not sure how the Chinese world is catered for, but X.400 (at least in the days
- long ago when I worked on 84 version) is very ASCII orientated - I remember
- the first customer for a product I was involved with was in Norway, where they
- use extended characters - and guess what - these were (are?) not legal in
- X.400 ORNames!
-
- Guess countries that use characters other than the standard US/UK ones need
- to contribute more to ISO and CCITT?????
-
- Hopefully the situation is better now - is it???
- --
- Dave Torr dave@philips.oz.au
- Software Development Manager Tel +61 3 881 3587
- Philips Public Telecommunications Systems Fax +61 3 883 3577
- Views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect Philips' policy.
-