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From: Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
Subject: Re: RFC-1148/2: what about underlines
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Date: 15 Mar 91 11:11:44 GMT
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Steve,

I cannot accept this conclusion. Apart from the "space in ORName" artefact,
the feature is only used by questionably engineered gateways -- gateways which
are in no way representing standard RFC-822 or X.400 users. By removing this
requirement, we will guarantee that all X.400 users for which a mapping of
domain exists can exchange mail with all native Internet and Usenet users,
regardless of the host requirement (which, technically, only applies to TCP-IP
connected hosts). In short, problems would only hit the deliberate problem
makers -- the designers of these dubious gateways.

I suppose that we should follow the advice of the various network
administrators, rather than a purely theoretical approach.

Christian Huitema