[ih] .UK vs .GB

[John Day]

The list of possibilities for X.400 is less than the possibilities for current email. The only difference is they designate the type of the attribute and the current email doesn’t.  ;-)  So should we conclude that while X.400 included the kitchen sink, the current mail included the bathtub?  ;-)

John

> On Apr 16, 2018, at 00:57, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 16/04/2018 01:01, John Day wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Yes, the list of X.400 keywords strongly suggests database design rather than human interface design. But even so, it's a kitchen sink list.
> 
>   Brian
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>> John
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>>> 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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