Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!iramu1!nipper From: nipper@iramu1.ira.uka.de (Arnold Nipper) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: long names, from dnet.test Message-ID: <90.195.19:37:58@ira.uka.de> Date: 14 Jul 90 19:37:58 GMT References: <158283@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <3385@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Sender: news@ira.uka.de (USENET News System) Reply-To: nipper@ira.uka.de (Arnold Nipper) Organization: University of Karlsuhe, West-Germany Lines: 28 In article enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >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] It's a long story why FYDN got so long in Germany. But as you can see we have short names too. (BTW: the longest name I saw was about 50 characters long, something like ....adlerserver.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de ) ******************************************************************************** Arnold Nipper *** Universitaet Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5 * nipper@ira.uka.de XLINK, Inst. fuer Betr.- und Dialogsysteme, D-7500 Karlsruhe * +49 721 608 4331 ********************************************************************************