Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!nuug!ulrik!ifi!skakke.ifi.uio.no!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: long names, from dnet.test Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 90 04:43:42 GMT References: <158283@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <3385@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Sender: usenet@ifi.uio.no (News Poster) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de's message of 13 Jul 90 09:23:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: svarte.ifi.uio.no In article <3385@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes: 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 Oh yeah? If I tried to feed that C=Bundesrepublik-Deutschland into the nearest X.400 mailer, it's spit at me! It's C=DE or some numeric code, thank you. I would also think that ADMD=DBP it pretty much fixed, so you couldn't just expand it as you like. There must be some kind of correlation between the enormously long German words and their domain names, I think. -- [Erik Naggum]