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From: koorland@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca (Neil Koorland)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: O/R name component ordering (was: Report from X.400 development
Message-ID: <9106241376*koorland@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca>
Date: 24 Jun 91 23:21:37 GMT
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> More to the point of the problem with changing things at this point,
> there are service providers and vendors with hundreds and thousands of
> systems in the field that will need upgrading one way or another over
> time.

As a vendor, HEAR, HEAR !

> While I am in here -- Does anyone have any idea as to how much use
> will be made of the Terminal Identifier and the User Agent Numeric
> Indentifier atributes of the ORADdress?

> the work of enabling their entry now, or not.  One problem I see is
> that a user interface that prompts for all the odd attributes is going
> to drive the users crazy!  The regular atributes are more than enough
> already!

We have never come across users that use these attributes, but I don't think
that supporting it means having to prompt for them every time. What
about configurable products and user profiles ? Unfortunately, even leaving
them out of the prompt won't stop your users from going crazy when they
still have to provide input values for all the other attributes.

Neil Koorland