Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway Subject: Re: RFC987 gateways and illegal RFC822 domainname characters Message-ID: <1990Dec7.233853.10263@chx400.switch.ch> Date: 8 Dec 90 06:12:04 GMT References: Reply-To: Simon Poole Organization: SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 19 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU x-attn: jns ReSent-To: ifip-gtwy@ICS.UCI.EDU In article mdb@esd.3com.COM ("Mark D. Baushke") writes: .............. >I have sent individual messages to the postmasters in charge of such >gateways for their consideration. I hope that they choose to 'fix' >their sites by converting to only legal characters in domainnames. .............. There are a awlful lot of "pseudo" RFC-987 gateways which cause a lot of problems (alas, I run one of them too*), a correct implementation will not cause the problems you describe. The widespread use of bug ridden X.400 software is really a problem** (the DFN has even managed to export some to China 1/2 :-)), and will not go away anytime soon. * I hope this will be fixed in one to two months ** in particular EAN has numerous problems with standards conformance -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Poole poole@verw.switch.ch / poole@chx400.switch.ch / mcsun!chx400!poole ------------------------------------------------------------------------