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Re: [openpgp] email death certificates

2019-08-24 07:46:51
Stephen Farrell <stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie> writes:

25+ years ago I worked on X.400 mail. The X.400 specs had a recipient
deceased non-delivery notification IIRC

This is what an RFC822 address looks like in a certificate:

  rfc822Name     IA5String

This is what an X.400 address looks like  in a certificate:

        ITU-Braindamge ::= SEQUENCE {
                built-in-standard-attributes            SEQUENCE {
                        country-name  [ APPLICATION 1 ] CHOICE {
                                x121-dcc-code                           
NumericString,
                                iso-3166-alpha2-code            PrintableString
                                },
                        administration-domain-name
                                                  [ APPLICATION 2 ]     CHOICE {
                                numeric                                         
NumericString,
                                printable                                       
PrintableString
                                },
                        network-address                   [ 0 ] NumericString 
OPTIONAL,
                        terminal-identifier               [ 1 ] PrintableString 
OPTIONAL,
                        private-domain-name               [ 2 ] CHOICE {
                                numeric                                         
NumericString,
                                printable                                       
PrintableString
                                } OPTIONAL,
                        organization-name                 [ 3 ] PrintableString 
OPTIONAL,
                        numeric-use-identifier    [ 4 ] NumericString OPTIONAL,
                        personal-name                     [ 5 ] SET {
                                surname                           [ 0 ] 
PrintableString,
                                given-name                        [ 1 ] 
PrintableString,
                                initials                          [ 2 ] 
PrintableString,
                                generation-qualifier  [ 3 ]     PrintableString
                                } OPTIONAL,
                        organizational-unit-name  [ 6 ] PrintableString 
OPTIONAL,
                        }
                built-in-domain-defined-attributes      SEQUENCE OF {
                        type                                                    
PrintableString SIZE(1..64),
                        value                                                   
PrintableString SIZE(1..64)
                        } OPTIONAL
                extensionAttributes                                     SET OF 
SEQUENCE {
                        extension-attribute-type  [ 0 ] INTEGER,
                        extension-attribute-value [ 1 ] ANY DEFINED BY 
extension-attribute-type
                        } OPTIONAL
                }

Given that, I would hope that X.400 not only includes a recipient deceased
non-delivery notification but also a detailed record of what the cause of
death was, a complete autopsy report, and an address to send flowers to.

Peter.

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