Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!tumuc!lan!charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de!k2 From: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: long names, from dnet.test Message-ID: <3385@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 13 Jul 90 09:23:00 GMT References: <158283@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Sender: news@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Lines: 41 emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >What is the record for 'longest domain name in actual practice'? >I show a couple of examples below to inspire you. >--Ed >Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept >In article <586@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de> > pk@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (Peter Koch) writes: > From: pk@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (Peter Koch) > Newsgroups: dnet.test > Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany > ars@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Arne Steinkamm) writes: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There is an very hard pressure here in germany into the ISO/OSI direction. And it's the common practice here, to use the same names for Internet as for X.400. So the above example in X.400 notation will look like that: S=Steinkamm;OU=tumuc;OU=regent;OU=e-technik;PRMD=tu-muenchen;ADMD=dbp;C=de Sincerely, Klaus Steinberger p.s.: It's not really consequent, if we avoid any shortnames, it will look like that: S=Arne.Steinkamm;OU=tumuc;OU=Lehrstuhl-fuer-Rechnergestuetztes-Entwerfen; OU=Elektro-technik;PRMD=Technische-Universitaet-Muenchen; ADMD=Deutsche-Bundespost-Telekom;C=Bundesrepublik-Deutschland Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287 Hochschulgelaende, D-8046 Garching, West Germany BITNET: K2@DGABLG5P Internet: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de