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RFC 1801        X.400-MHS Routing using X.500 Directory        June 1995


      13.1   Finding Alternate Routes  .   .   .   .   .   .   .      30
      13.2   Sharing routing information   .   .   .   .   .   .      31
  14  Looking up Information in the Directory                         31
  15  Naming MTAs                                                     33
      15.1   Naming 1984 MTAs  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      35
  16  Attributes Associated with the MTA                              35
  17  Bilateral Agreements                                            36
  18  MTA Selection                                                   38
      18.1   Dealing with protocol mismatches  .   .   .   .   .      38
      18.2   Supported Protocols   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      39
      18.3   MTA Capability Restrictions   .   .   .   .   .   .      39
      18.4   Subtree Capability Restrictions   .   .   .   .   .      40
  19  MTA Pulling Messages                                            41
  20  Security and Policy                                             42
      20.1   Finding the Name of the Calling MTA   .   .   .   .      42
      20.2   Authentication    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      42
      20.3   Authentication Information    .   .   .   .   .   .      44
  21  Policy and Authorisation                                        46
      21.1   Simple MTA Policy     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      46
      21.2   Complex MTA Policy    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      47
  22  Delivery                                                        49
      22.1   Redirects     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      49
      22.2   Underspecified O/R Addresses  .   .   .   .   .   .      50
      22.3   Non Delivery  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      51
      22.4   Bad Addresses     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      51
  23  Submission                                                      53
      23.1   Normal Derivation     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      53
      23.2   Roles and Groups  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      53
  24  Access Units                                                    54
  25  The Overall Routing Algorithm                                   54
  26  Performance                                                     55
  27  Acknowledgements                                                55
  28  References                                                      56
  29  Security Considerations                                         57
  30  Author's Address                                                58
  A   Object Identifier Assignment                                    59
  B   Community Identifier Assignments                                60
  C   Protocol Identifier Assignments                                 60
  D   ASN.1 Summary                                                   61
  E   Regular Expression Syntax                                       71
  List of Figures
      1      Location of Routing Trees     .   .   .   .   .   .      12
      2      Routing Tree Use Definition   .   .   .   .   .   .      14
      3      Routing Information at a Node     .   .   .   .   .      17
      4      Indirect Access   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      25
      5      UA Attributes     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      27
      6      MTA Definitions   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      33
      7      MTA Bilateral Table Entry     .   .   .   .   .   .      36



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