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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???
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