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Re: Encoding e-mail addresses as DN's: draft

1994-03-07 02:46:00
     domainComponent ::= {ccitt 9 2342 19200300 100 1 25}

     rfc822Mailbox ::= {ccitt 9 2342 19200300 100 1 3}

  The representation of each of these attributes is IA5String.  [Can
  someone help me here?  I've forgotten the numbers for "ccitt".]

CCITT = 0. A commented notation for your numbers would be:

        domainComponent OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= 
                {ccitt(0)  network-operator(9) pss(2342) 
                        ucl(192003000) 100 1 25}
        rfc822Mailbox OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= 
                {ccitt(0)  network-operator(9) pss(2342) 
                        ucl(192003000) 100 1 3}

The binary encoding for these values is 10 byte long, due to the particular
OID choice:

        dc = '0992268993F22C640119'H
        rm = '0992268993F22C640103'H

I am not very happy with basing an Internet usage on an UCL owned X.25 number.
Apart from being bulky, this is also unstable - suppose that UCL get
renumbered by PSS? I suggest that you denote these assignments as provisional,
and ask IANA for a proper number.

Christian Huitema

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