[ih] .UK vs .GB

[John Klensin]

I certainly didn't mean to claim that X.500 would have been a good
substitute for the DNS. Independent of its considerable range of
technical and design issues, in the early 1980s it had already entered
the "ready a couple of years from now" state that continued for more
than a decade so it was really not a plausible option.  However, those
considerations did not prevent its being recommended (and even
aggressively pushed) in various quarters.

   john


On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:
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>> On 14 Apr 2018, at 21:36, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think I did once see a business card with an X.400 address (but
>> certainly not from Denise or Ruediger, who had more sense.)
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> In Sweden X.400 was used by a few hardcore institutions.  It required Y2K problems to have Tele2/Swipnet turn off their admd and gateway to/from smtp.
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>    Patrik
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