Re: DDA and PRMD/S fields

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From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:51

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In article <9211090912.aa09056@q2.ics.uci.edu>, /PN=Thomas.K.Hinders/OU=CCMAIL/O=CHAN.IS/PRMD=MMC/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com writes:
|> 
|>     A question regarding  DA's. The 84/88 standard requires that if
|>     you use a DDA you must also specify a PRMD or S field.
|> 

The contrary is X.400(84), chapter 3.3.2, where Variant 2 O/R names
consist of Country, ADMD, UA unique numeric identifier and DDAs.
No Surname or PRMD is even ALLOWED.

Also, it is common for DD.RFC-822 attributes (that you, from your
address, should see a lot of if Sprint's gateway is RFC-1327 compliant)
to run around without PRMD fields, and they NEVER have surname fields.
(See any DDA-using message from C=fi;ADMD=funet, for instance)

So the rule you refer to is broken by a lot of existing systems.
-- 
                   Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=alvestrand;G=harald
+47 7 59 70 94

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