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From: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: long names, from dnet.test
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Date: 16 Jul 90 06:19:55 GMT
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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.

Oh, I know, it's only a choke. This choke isn't from me, it's from
some guy I don't remember at one of our networking meetings here in
germany. (He used not the same example, but one that expands to an
even longer name)

Sincerely,
Klaus Steinberger
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