Protocol Action: Mapping between X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11 (DECnet mail) to Experimental

[IESG Secretary <[e-mail]>]

  The IESG has approved the Internet Draft "Mapping between
  X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11 (DECnet mail)"
  <draft-ietf-x400ops-mapsmail-02.txt> as a Experimental Protocol. This
  document is the product of the X.400 Operations Working Group. The
  IESG contact persons are Russ Hobby and Erik Huizer.

Technical Summary

  This document describes a set of mappings which will enable
  interworking between systems operating the CCITT X.400 (1984/1988)
  Recommendations on Message Handling Systems, and systems running the
  Mail-11 (also known as DECnet mail) protocol. The specifications are
  valid within DECnet Phase IV addressing and routing scheme.

  The complete scenario of X.400 / RFC822 / Mail-11 is also considered,
  in order to cover the possible complex cases arising in multiple
  gateway translations.

  This document covers mainly the O/R address to DECnet from/to address
  mapping (and vice versa); other mappings are based on RFC1327 and its
  eventual future updates.

Working Group Summary

  After a request from the HEPnet and SPAN community the X.400
  Operations Working Group started working on this document and at the
  same time experiments were done in Trieste (It). The current document
  has also been reviewed by the RARE WG-mhs.

Greg Vaudreuil
IESG Secretary