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In article <1992Dec16.102132.23668@nic.funet.fi>, siili@sumppu.fmi.fi (Tero Siili) writes:
|> 
|> Question: what are the compulsory X.400 address fields?  Specifically,
|> can an address contain C, ADMD, PRMD, OU and PN but NOT ORG?
|> 
Yes. Look at the addresses used by German academic sites.
(PRMD=university;OU1=university OU)
I personally think that it is a bad idea, but they do not agree with me.
-- 
                   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

hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand) writes:

>|> Question: what are the compulsory X.400 address fields?  Specifically,
>|> can an address contain C, ADMD, PRMD, OU and PN but NOT ORG?
>Yes. Look at the addresses used by German academic sites.
>(PRMD=university;OU1=university OU)
>I personally think that it is a bad idea, but they do not agree with me.

Oh, there are quite a number of people in the DFN (the German academic
network community) that believe, that a PRMD=dfn and a O=university XY
would have been a MUCH better approach. Today, we have a ADMD of a
PTT (dbp) although the X.400 net of DFN is not connected to the
X.400 Telebox system of dbp. It's really a bad system they've selected
here. You can't determine from a C=de ORAddress, whether it is located
in the DFN net or in the X.400 Telebox. This causes quite a lot confusion
in the gateway world.

Markus

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In article <1992Dec16.102132.23668@nic.funet.fi> siili@sumppu.fmi.fi (Tero Siili) writes:
>
>Question: what are the compulsory X.400 address fields?  Specifically,
>can an address contain C, ADMD, PRMD, OU and PN but NOT ORG?
>
>Tero Siili
>Tero.Siili@fmi.fi

According to the '88 XAPIA docs, none of them are compulsory.  Section 5.2.31
describes the om object representing an OR address, and all attributes are
listed as optional.  Best I can figure, what attributes are necessary
depends on the routing that the mail implementation you are using uses.

>>Question: what are the compulsory X.400 address fields?  Specifically,
>>can an address contain C, ADMD, PRMD, OU and PN but NOT ORG?

Not my area, but I have the blue book handy.  There may be
other standards or profile requirements that apply.  But
in X.402 clause 18.5, it seems to say (for the mnemonic
form): 
   Must have one country and admd to specify an ADMD.
   Some combination of a prmd, org, ou, pn, cn (up to one
    of each, except several ou allowed).
   Optionally, one or more dda.
My guess is ou without org makes sense because often the
org is running the prmd.

My guess is that there are other rules that apply as well.

Aren't there additional address fields in the U. S. GOSIP specifications
that go beyond the standard and are compulsory?

Mike