[ih] .UK vs .GB

[John Day]

Yes, it was a committee as was SMTP.  But before you get to self-satisfied with how smart we all were and they weren’t.  It should be pointed out that much of the design of both X.400 and X.500 was driven by the former DARPA participants in the National Software Works project from SRI. I had many an argument with them over various aspects of it.

The idea of knowing what type the components of an identifier are is not inherently a bad idea. It certainly gives you more information for the database design that goes with it.

John

> 
> X.400 addressing is a great example of design by committee, in which
> consensus was reached by including everything suggested by anybody.
> There were apparently 14 different keywords.
> 
>    Bian
> 
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