Re: UFN keywords for stateOrProvinceName

Sylvain Langlois <sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr> Fri, 24 January 1992 16:04 UTC

Received: from nri.reston.va.us by NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US id aa09537; 24 Jan 92 11:04 EST
Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk by NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US id aa09528; 24 Jan 92 11:04 EST
Via: bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Fri, 24 Jan 1992 14:28:18 +0000
Received: from mcsun.eu.net by eros.uknet.ac.uk via EUnet with SMTP (PP) id <22130-0@eros.uknet.ac.uk>; Fri, 24 Jan 1992 13:02:41 +0000
Received: from corton.inria.fr by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP; id AA25834 (5.65a/CWI-2.136); Fri, 24 Jan 1992 14:00:56 +0100
Received: from edfder1.UUCP by corton.inria.fr (5.65c8d/91.12.15) via Fnet-EUnet id AA03748; Fri, 24 Jan 1992 12:47:39 +0100 (MET)
Original-Received: from cli53an.der.edf.fr by edfder1.edf.fr, Fri, 24 Jan 92 12:33:55 +0100
PP-warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line
Received: from loghost by cli53an.der.edf.fr (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA01997; Fri, 24 Jan 92 12:35:23 GMT
To: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Cc: Thomas Lenggenhager <Lenggenhager@gate.switch.ch>, osi-ds@cicb.fr
Subject: Re: UFN keywords for stateOrProvinceName
In-Reply-To: Thomas Lenggenhager's message of 24 Jan 92 11:53:19 +0100. <6996*Lenggenhager@gate.switch.ch>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 12:35:22 +0000
Message-Id: <1996.696256522@cli53an>
From: Sylvain Langlois <sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr>

> I don't think that the keywords  'State' and 'Area'  as suggested in
> the draft,
> are a good choice for non-english spoken persons. A short word like 'ST' for
> state or 'SP' for 'State or Province' would be better.

> What does Paul-Andre think about that choice for French speaking people?

I'll let PAP  reply personnaly, but  IMHO, geographical information is
indeed to handled  with care: various countries  do not have the  same
"rules". I would say that this is really a PTT related matter;  it may
be  a  political matter  too.   For instance, we   have in  France the
concepts of "regions" (province?) which is a  way of cutting political
responsabilities  between  different authorities  but has  very little
impact  on "technical" aspects such as  the ones involved in deploying
an X.500 service in the R&D community.

Sylvain

----------------
Sylvain Langlois		  "Dogmatic attachement to the supposed merits
(sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr)	   of a particular structure hinders the searc
h
				   of an appropriate structure" (Robert Fripp)