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Article #1017Re: Problem with mapping between RFC and X.400 adresses
From: Peter Vanderbilt
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 17:58
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 17:58
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> 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.
Attributes with a "." in them should not be mapped to the domain part
of the address but must be kept in the local part (using the
"/attr=value/" syntax). The only attributes appearing in the domain
part must be in the domain syntax.
RFC 987 section 4.2.4, mapping B, point 2:
Following the 4.3.1 hierarchy, if each successive
component exists, and conforms to the syntax
EBNF.domain-syntax (as defined in 4.3.1), allocate the
next subdomain.
The reference to 4.3.1 should be 4.2.1:
domain-syntax = ALPHA [ *alphanumhyphen alphanum ]
alphanum = <ALPHA or DIGIT>
alphanumhyphen = <ALPHA or DIGIT or HYPHEN>
Pete
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!SUN.COM!pv From: pv@SUN.COM (Peter Vanderbilt) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: Problem with mapping between RFC and X.400 adresses Message-ID: <8902011758.AA16344@polya.sun.com> Date: 1 Feb 89 17:58:23 GMT Sender: daemon@ncis.llnl.gov Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Approved: post-x400@tis.llnl.gov