Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: perry@MCL.Unisys.COM (Dennis Perry) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: ISO/CCITT meeting report, Munich July 1990 Message-ID: <9008161026.AA06444@kauai.MCL.Unisys.COM> Date: 16 Aug 90 10:59:53 GMT Lines: 49 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU from: Mark Horton : > > Visual representation of OR-addresses > ------------------------------------- > > Three formats had been compared: > > (a) ... > > (b) An abbreviated labelled format, something like this: > > C=SE; ADMD=TEDE; PRMD=QZ; GN=John; SN=Peterson > > (c) A very concise format, something like this: > > John/Peterson//QZ//TEDE/SE > Tom Bannon adds the following >> >>For what it's worth, my $0.02 on X.400 addressing: From what I >>percieve as being proposed as required address formats for input >>by humans to send mail to other humans it is *completely >>ridiculous*. For use by computers, fine. Humans??? Wake up. >>It looks like something a first year CS student would >>hack up for one of his projects. >>In my view electronic mail addressing formats should converge to >>those used to address ordinary physical mail, the kind you put >>stamps on and put in the mail box on the corner. >>Do you see ordinary people getting into "C=SE; ADMD=TEDE; PRMD=QZ"? >>Tom >>Information Technologies Laboratory >>Computer Science Center >>Texas Instruments, Dallas >>bannon@csc.ti.com Finally, a reasonsable statement about how technology runs amuck and causes ordinary people (not elite technologist) to react negatively to technology. Technology should be used to make life enjoyable, remove the drudgery, and advance the civilization of the human race. In the business world it should promote and support the activities of that business. In the academic world it can do what ever it wants, since that is what academics do. :-) Unfortunately, anarchy in non-academic society does not promote the advance of that society, but retards it. dennis