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From: barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG
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Subject: X.400/X.500 Naming Questions
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Date: 8 Sep 89 16:23:30 GMT
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I hope someone out there can answer the following questions for me.
I have vague, general ideas of the answers, but I would really appreciate
solid, reliable answers from people who really know.  Pointers to
specific standards and clauses would be very nice as well.  I do not
have copies of Blue Books yet, so it would help me satisfy my immediate
curiosity if you could include at least a few words of actual explanation.

1. What are legal (specific) values for the Country attribute in an
O/R name/address and where are they specified or registered?

2. Is there any case in which a Country, so-called in X.400, is anything
other than what one thinks of as a "country" (a sovereign entity with
territory, population, and a government, etc.)?

3. Would the answers to either of those questions, or any closely
related question I might have asked, differ between 1984 and 1988 X.400?
Between O/R names and O/R addresses?  Between any kind of Directory name 
and any other kind of Directory or X.400 name/address?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Bill Barns