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From: cfe+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Craig F. Everhart")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Problem with mapping between RFC and X.400 adresses
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Date: 1 Feb 89 05:52:06 GMT
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Would it cause too many problems for the '.' character as used in X.400
attributes to be replaced by '-' when converted to domain-style notation?  As I
understand it, X.400/domain gateways need to know (at least) what the domain
names mean in X.400-speak, so they could easily know that the domain component
foo-bar had to be spelled out as the X.400 organization name Foo.Bar.

                Craig Everhart