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Re: UFN take 2

Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk> Fri, 24 January 1992 18:59 UTC

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From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
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To: Paul-Andre.Pays@inria.fr, S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: UFN take 2
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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> >   - the delimiters should be square brackets.   Thus:
> >      [Paul-Andre-Pays, Inria, FR] or if you prefer
> >      [CN=Paul-Andre Pays, O=Inria, C=FR]
> >      I think that <> is already overloaded.  Square brackets could easily 
> >      be integrated with RFC 822 and X.400 UIPs modelled on 822, 
> >      which is also attractive.
> 
> Approved to, I was just giving an example and I have no special
> feeling for ">".  Let's go for square brackets

Well, for software which are intended for international use,
I would certainly advice not to use the [] (square brackets) as these
are problem characters in many places of the world. 

Keld

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