Re: operator-visible goals?

On 8-feb-04, at 17:52, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:

> - A message must be able to be traced from the originator to the 
> intended recipient(s). This tracing is optional; that is, it does not 
> need to be turned on for every message. The tracing should be able to 
> be turned on by any entity in the transportation chain (the 
> originator, and any transmitting hosts).
  ^^^^^^^^^^^

Disagree with this part. Just _maybe_ the originator gets a say, if 
they listen to the wishes of the recipient, but intermediate nodes 
don't know better than the two { people, systems } communicating.