[ih] .UK vs .GB

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 21:57:34 PDT 2018


On 14/04/2018 16:00, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 13 Apr 2018, at 19:44, Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The X.400/X.500 systems were simply going to replace everything anyway, so the wisdom went.
> 
> 😳
> 
> But of course!!

Why on earth we didn't all switch to X.400 is hard to imagine. For example,
the X.400 human-readable version of a JANET address via a gateway would have
been so simple:
C = gb; ADMD = gold 400; PRMD = gw; DD.jnt-mail = user(a)domain.subdomains

(Quoted from Recommendation for a shorthand X.400 address representation, 1989.)

   Brian





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