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Jacob Palme from Sweden seems to like "the natural way to write an
"Internet style" mail address without ADMD, PRMD or DDA-s. However," he
continues, "since the U.S. proposal includes optional ADMD, PRMD and
DDA-s for "Internet style" mail addresses, I want to know how such
addresses are to be written on business cards."
My answer:
How do you write your fax number on the business card? Simply as a
telephone number according to CCITT recommendation E.163, I hope with a
+ sign before the country code.
And yet, your fax number can also be expressed as an X.121 address, as:
9-46-8-55443322
(if I may just invent a number in Stockholm ...).
And this can be used in a X.400 O/R Address, with or without a
domain identifier. Would you write your fax number as an X.121 address?
Would you write an X.400 domain identifier on your business card as
part of the fax number? I don't think so. But the sender might add it,
either because the explicit routing forced by this might save on
telephone charges part of the total message cost, or because the
sender's e-mail provider requires such information.
In analogy, if you omit the country code from your fax number, you
will find most of your contacts to be intelligent enough to find out
Sweden's telephone country code. Most telephone service provider assist
their users with information on international dialling - as e-mail
providers should assist their users in gatewaying.
I see the proposal we are discussing here in the same way -- but
this is quite speculative since we have not yet had a chance to see the
original proposal and the rationale for the optional X.400 domain
identifier to go with an RFC-822 addresss.
Kind regards,
L.Willms
[Germany]