Re: Some More Off-List Comments

[Mike Lampson <lampson@iaregistry.com>]

Scott,

The Universal Postal Union only lists 5 digit postal codes for both France
and Mexico.  Note that the UPU also indicates placement of postal codes when
sending mail.  These 2 countries both place their postal code to the left of
the locality.

Start here:
  http://www.upu.int/publications/en/post_code.shtml
and click on "Addressing formats" to look up information for a specific
country.

Regards,

Mike Lampson
The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC

P.S. Without knowing the specific needs (and future changes) of postal
identifiers used throughout the world, I would say that a 16 character limit
sounds better than 10.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hollenbeck Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
To: "'ietf-provregcafaxse'" <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Some More Off-List Comments


I've received a few more comments for protocol fixes/improvements off-list.
I intend to send these to the IESG when they open the last call:

- Increase the length of the contact postal code field to 16 characters
because postal codes longer than 10 characters (the current limit) are
possible in some countries, such as Mexico and France.  Perhaps list
participants living or working in those countries can confirm?

- Add a child "reason" text element to the <result> element so that error
conditions can be explained more fully in a server-defined, human-readable
way.

-Scott-