CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     Normative References
        2.1     Identical Recommendations | International Standards
        2.2     Paired Recommendations | International Standards equivalent in technical
 3     Definitions
        3.1     MHS definitions
        3.2     ASN.1 definitions
        3.3     Directory definitions
        3.4     Presentation Service definitions
        3.5     MHS-routing definitions
        3.6     MHS Routing Methodology Definitions
 4     Abbreviations
 5     Overview
        5.1     The role of MHS Routing
        5.2     Administrative Roles
        5.3     The Role of the MHS Routing Standard
        5.4     The advantages of using MHS Routing
 6     MHS Routing Concepts
        6.1     Introduction
        6.2     MHS
        6.3     The Message Routing Problem
        6.4     A Directory Solution to Message Routing
        6.5     General Directory Services and Functions
        6.6     MHS-Routing use of the Directory
        6.7     Scenario
        6.8     Routing Collectives and Connection Groups
        6.9     Routing Collective Directory Representation
       6.10     Connection Groups
       6.11     Connection Group Directory Representation
       6.12     OR-address Plan
       6.13     OR-address plan directory representation in OR-address subtrees
       6.14     MTA definitions
       6.15     The MTA’s Message Routing Process
       6.16     MHS Routing Administrative Roles
       6.17     MHS Routing Administrative Tasks
                 6.17.1     Organizational Requirements Analysis
                 6.17.2     Design Tasks
                 6.17.3     Configuring the Directory
                 6.17.4     MTA Configuration
                 6.17.5     MTA Initialization
       6.18     Prerequisites for MHS Routing
       6.19     Organizational Requirements Analysis
       6.20     The user community
       6.21     Cultural requirements and constraints
       6.22     Organizational messaging administrative structures
       6.23     Existing, non-standard and other Messaging Systems
       6.24     Available Communications Infrastructure
       6.25     Messaging Traffic Patterns and Volumes
       6.26     Security requirements
       6.27     Specific message routing requirements or policies
       6.28     Alternative routing capability
       6.29     Directory systems availability
       6.30     Distribution lists
       6.31     MTS Topology Design
       6.32     General Guidance
       6.33     Input information
       6.34     Results of the Topology design process
       6.35     Identifying Connection Groups for MTAs
       6.36     Results
 7     OR-address Plan Design
        7.1     General
        7.2     Information Input
        7.3     OR-address plan specification
        7.4     Special Cases
        7.5     OR-address Registration Authority Roles
        7.6     Results of the OR-address plan design
 8     Routing Collective Design and Configuration
        8.1     Introduction
        8.2     Directory Information Base Preparation
        8.3     Directory Information Base Configuration
        8.4     Connection Groups
                  8.4.1     Defining Connection Groups
                  8.4.2     Adding a Connection Group to a Routing Collective
                  8.4.3     Deleting a Connection Group Definition
                  8.4.4     Routing Collectives
                  8.4.5     Identifying Routing Collectives
                  8.4.6     Routing Collective Definition
                  8.4.7     Creating the top level Routing Collective
                  8.4.8     Adding a Subordinate Routing Collective
                  8.4.9     Deleting a Routing Collective
                 8.4.10     Adding Proxy routing collectives
        8.5     Configuring Routes for MTAs in OR-address subtrees
                  8.5.1     OR-address subtree types
                  8.5.2     OR-address subtrees Model
                  8.5.3     Routing Information
                  8.5.4     Specifying OR-address subtree bases
                  8.5.5     Building OR-address subtrees
                  8.5.6     Establishing External Routes to destinations outside the routing collective
                  8.5.7     Distributing Access to External routes through a routing collective
                  8.5.8     Establishing Routes to  non-Routing MTAs or proprietary messaging systems
                  8.5.9     Default Routes
        8.6     OR-address subtree Entry Routing Information Configuration
                  8.6.1     OR-address attribute registration
                  8.6.2     The Target Routing Collective Instruction
                  8.6.3     MHS User Instruction
                  8.6.4     Aliases
                  8.6.5     Aliasing Techniques
                  8.6.6     Alias OR-address Instructions for Personal Names
                  8.6.7     The Alias Redirection Instruction
                  8.6.8     The Non-delivery Instruction
                  8.6.9     The Distribution List Instruction
                 8.6.10     The Recipient MD Assigned Alternate Recipient Instruction
                 8.6.11     The Double Enveloping Instruction
                 8.6.12     The Expression Matches Instruction
                 8.6.13     Truncating an OR-address subtree
        8.7     Organizing an MTA’s OR-address subtrees
                  8.7.1     The MTA’s OR-address subtree sequence
        8.8     Publishing Routing Capabilities
        8.9     Configuring an MTA
                  8.9.1     Routing MTA Entry
                  8.9.2     mHSMessageTransferAgent Entry
       8.10     MTA Initialization
       8.11     MTA Cache information
 9     Directory Information Base Guide
        9.1     Directory Information Structure
        9.2     Routing collective subtree components
                  9.2.1     The Routing Collective Object Class
                  9.2.2     Routing MTA Object Class
        9.3     Connection Group
                  9.3.1     The Connection Group Object Class
        9.4     MTA Components
                  9.4.1     MTA Information Object Class
        9.5     OR-address subtree Components
                  9.5.1     The OR-address Element object class
10     Provision of the MHS Routing Directory Service
Annex A – Scenarios
        A.1     Single MTA MD connected only to an ADMD
        A.2     A small MD under a single management
        A.3     Large MD with autonomous management
        A.4     The open access connection group case
        A.5     Collection of MDs
        A.6     Secret OR-addresses
Annex B – MHS Routing DUA Specification