RFC1279 query

Bob Smart <smart@mel.dit.csiro.au> Fri, 20 August 1993 06:54 UTC

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Cc: smart@mel.dit.csiro.au
Subject: RFC1279 query
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 16:18:24 +1000
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From: Bob Smart <smart@mel.dit.csiro.au>

I was having a look at RFC1279 and I think I'm confused.

I have an e-mail address bob@mel.dit.csiro.au. There is also
a mahine bob.mel.dit.csiro.au [this machine-naming convention is
quite common for PCs]. As I understand RFC1279 both of these
would map [using DN= for DomainName=] to (in rfc1485 format):

  DN=bob; DN=mel; DN=dit; DN=csiro; DN=au;

And so I can have one or the other in the Directory but not both?

I presume that RFC1279 uses the DomainName= for an RFC822mailbox 
to be compatible with the use of MB (and related) records in
the DNS. However since MB records are pretty well dead it appears
that the gain in compatibility is not now worth the significant
cost.

Since it is an experimental standard that is not widely used yet,
I presume we can change this. Might I suggest CommonName for
the mailbox case, for surely an rfc822mailbox name is a common
name in the context of a DNS domain.

[Note the DNS doesn't have any problem with the ambiguity. It
doesn't mind the fact that bob.mel.dit.csiro.au has an A record
and also an MB record.]

Bob Smart

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