Abbreviation for street address (OSI-DS 23 (v3))

Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Wed, 04 November 1992 18:24 UTC

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Subject: Abbreviation for street address (OSI-DS 23 (v3))
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OSI-DS defines abbreviations for attributes in distinguished names,
e.g. CN for common name. Well, I believe one important attribute is
missing: street address. Objects of the class residential person are
normally named with both common name and street address, e.g.

     John Smith+Hill Avenue 42, London, GB

Without the additional street address, it will be difficult to copy
a whole phone book of a locality (i.e. a town or a village) into the
X.500 directory without name collisions. 

Suggested abbreviation for street address: STR or ADR.

What do you think? Should OSI-DS 23 be extended by this keyword (table 1)?

Markus

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Abbreviation for street address (OSI-DS 23 (v3)) Markus Kuhn
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