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From: jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What Is Difference Between Internet And X.400 Style Names?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 01:12:08 GMT
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hta@isolde.Berkeley.EDU (Harald Tveit Alvestrand) writes:

> 1) There exists an RFC called RFC-987 (see also RFC-1148) that specifies how
>    to map X.400 addresses to RFC format addresses and the other way round,
>    using a big, ugly table called "the RFC-987 mapping table".
>    See, for example, the two formats of my address below; they are the SAME
>    mailbox.
> 2) The format /THIS=... is ONE of the possible ways to write an X.400 address
>    (you might think that this is nitpicking until you encounter another one :
> 3) X.500 can store anything. We use it today to store (among other things)
>    X.400 mailbox names and RFC-822 mailbox names.
> 

Is there an RFC type DOC that details the specs for X.500 protocol?

-Jack Lupic-

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