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- Network Working Group S.E. Kille
- Request for Comments 1026 University College London
- September 1987
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- Addendum to RFC 987
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- (Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822)
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- Status of this Memo
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- This RFC suggest a proposed protocol for the Internet community, and
- requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution
- of this memo is unlimited.
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- This document specifies a number of additions and corrections to
- RFC-987, aka Mailgroup Note 19.
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- The addendum carries equal weight to the original specification,
- which must be used when this mapping is performed on the Internet or
- in the UK Academic Community. This mapping may also be used within
- the RARE community in Europe. This specification may be modified in
- the light of implementation experience, but no substantial changes
- are expected.
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- 1. Errata
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- - In section 4.6.4, replace ".." with ".".
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- - In section 4.2.4, replace three references to 4.3.1 by
- 4.2.1, and one reference to 4.2.2 by 4.1.2.
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- - In section 5.2, replace "1 mailbox" with "1#mailbox",
- "1 msg-id" with "1#msg-id" and "1 encoded-type" with
- "1#encoded-type".
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- 2. Component Ordering
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- In most cases, ordering of O/R name components is not significant for
- the mappings specified by this document. However, Organisational
- Units and Domain Defined Attributes are specified as SEQUENCE, in
- P1.ORName, and so their order may be significant. This specification
- needs to take account of this in two ways:
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- 1) To allow consistent mapping into the domain hierarchy
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- 2) To ensure preservation of order over multiple mappings.
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- There are three places where an order must be specified:
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- 1) On the text encoding (std-orname) of P1.ORName as used in the
- local-part of an RFC-822 address, the most significant component
- must be on the RHS. This applies only to those components which
- may have multiple values (Organisational Unit, and Domain
- Defined Attributes). Other attributes may be presented in any
- order. Note that in dmn-orname specified in Appendix F, this
- ordering is already implied by the current ordering
- requirements.
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- 2) For the Organisational Units (OU) in P1.ORName, the first OU in
- the SEQUENCE is the most signicicant. This follows the
- "natural" hierarchy of the specification of P1.ORName, where the
- most significant components are defined first.
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- 3) For the Domain Defined Attributes in P1.ORName, the First Domain
- Defined Attribute in the SEQUENCE is the most significant.
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- Note that although the ordering defined in 2) and 3) is mandatory for
- this mapping, there are NO implications on ordering significance
- within X.400.
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- 3. Extensions To Deal with Omitted Components
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- Implementation of RFC-987 has proved to be a little inflexible for
- some naming strategies. In particular, there are some difficulties
- where Organisation or PRMD is omitted:
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- The following sentence of RFC-987 should be removed: 4.2.1 (Page 27):
- "If one of the hierarchical components is omitted .... tuple).".
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- The strategy proposed is to introduce the concept of explicit missing
- components to the symmetrical mapping described in 4.2.1.
- Essentially, a domain may be associated with an omitted attribute in
- conjuction with several present ones. When performing the
- algorithmic insertion of components lower in the hierarchy, the
- omitted value should be skipped. For example, if "GMD.DFN" is
- associated with "C=DE", "ADMD=DBP", "PRMD=GMD", and omitted
- organisation, then "ZI.GMD.DFN" is mapped with "C=DE", "ADMD=DBP",
- "PRMD=GMD", "OU=ZI". It should be noted that attributes may have
- null values, and that this is treated separately from omitted
- attributes (whilst it would be bad practice to treat these two cases
- differently, they must be allowed for in practice).
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- To allow the mapping of null organisations to be represented in the
- specification of Appendix F, the dmn-orname syntax is extended, so
- that values may be given the symbol "@" (not a printable string
- character). This corresponds to an omitted attribute. The new
- definition is:
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- dmn-orname = dmn-part *( "." dmn-part )
- dmn-part = attribute "$" value
- attribute = standard-type
- / "~" dmn-printablestring
- value = dmn-printablestring
- / "@"
- dmn-printablestring
- = *( dmn-char / dmn-pair )
- dmn-char = <ps-delim, and any ps-char except ".">
- dmn-pair = "."
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- Appendix F - Format of address mapping tables
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- A new Appendix F is defined as follows:
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- There is a need to specify the association between the domain and
- X.400 namespaces described in 4.2.1. This is defined as a table
- syntax, but the syntax is defined in a manner which makes it suitable
- for use with domain nameservices (such as the Internet Domain
- nameservers or the UK NRS). The mapping is not symmetric, and so a
- separate table is specified for each direction. If multiple matches
- are possible, the longest possible match should be used.
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- Various restrictions are placed on the usage of dmn-orname:
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- 1) Only C, ADMD, PRMD, O, and OU may be used.
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- 2) There must be a strict ordering of all components, with the most
- significant components on the RHS.
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- 3) No components may be omitted from the hierarchy, although the
- hierarchy may terminate at any level. If the mapping is to an
- omitted component, the "@" syntax is used.
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- For domain -> X.400:
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- domain-syntax "#" dmn-orname "#"
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- Note that the trailing "#" is used for clarity, as the dmn-orname
- syntax can lead to values with trailing blanks.
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- For example:
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- AC.UK#PRMD$DES.ADMD$BT.C$UK#
- XEROX.COM#O$Xerox.ADMD$ATT.C$US#
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- HMI.DBP.DFN#O$@.PRMD$HMI.ADMD.DBP.C$DE#
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- For X.400 -> domain:
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- dmn-orname "#" domain-syntax "#"
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