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From: shekhar@hpinddacup.hp.COM (Shekhar Bhide)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Re: Printable format (was: Re: ISO/CCITT meeting report)
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Date: 19 Aug 90 20:38:34 GMT
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Hey, this notestring is slowly getting into mud-slinging over X400
addressing. And you haven't even seen the X.400/88 O/R addresses yet :-)

I don't think anyone is disputing that X.400 addressing is complex. But
the problem of having a global message handling standard, to interconnect
various e-mail systems developed by different vendors, without favoring or
excluding any operating system, any mail system, any country, any PTT is
indeed a complex one. In case it hasn't dawned to someone yet, X400 was
not designed with BSD 4.3 Bourne shell in mind. In fact it might be a
good exercise to come up with a simpler solution for addressing. Either
it will open your mind to the complexity of the problem or we might have
a better solution.

Lets hope that the X.500 Directory Service will be widely deployed soon
and shield the users from O/R addresses.


shekhar

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