🚀 go-pugleaf

Phone: +44-1-380-7294

ermmmm - how about using the quoting mechanism specied in RFC 987??



Steve


 >From:  P4403@se.qz.com
 >To:    mhsnews <mhsnews@uninett.unit.runit.vax>
 >Subject: Problem with mapping between RFC and X.400 adresses
 >Date:  1 Feb 89 12:44 +0100

 >>X-Bitnet-Sender: "Johan Lundberg TeleDelta (Swedish Telecom)" <P4403@COM.QZ.SE> 

 >A serius problem has been discovered with the current RFC-987
 >mapping
 >of
 >X.400
 >addresses to domain address that is used by the
 >academic comunity. The problem is the usage of the separator "."
 >(punctuation mark, full stop) between the "attributes" in the domain address.
 >     
 >In an X.400 address the "." is a leagal character in any of the attributes.
 >Many organizations make use of this character in their names
 >If such an organisationName or orgUnitName is used mapping from X.400 to RFC
 >will cause problem since the routing will probably fail.
 >And trying to map a sucsessfully transformed but not routable address
 >back again to X.400 will also fail.
 >     
 >One could perhaps circumvent this if one knows about those that uses "."
 >in thier names, but that will only work for the known ones and will make a
 >gateway more complex.
 >     
 >Has this been discussed and is there a solution to this problem?
 >