Re: Surnames and indexing white pages

David Herron <david@twg.com> Tue, 17 August 1993 18:10 UTC

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> It would also break a lot of existing implementations. Far better to
> go along with the standard that exists but to use a null value or
> follow som other convention (like the `single space' convention for
> ADMDs in X.400).

Hmm.. sounds like a failure mode of the process.  If the OSI/ISO process
cannot fold in