Re: Operations requirement: no hop-by-hop

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:54:37 -0800 Paul Hoffman / IMC <[email protected]> wrote:


> This may or may not be controversial, but I propose that a 
> requirement for sane operations is that mail-ng be single hop. 
> Multi-hop was a good design 20 years ago when many entities were not 
> online all the time, but it has also proven to be a huge hurdle in 
> extending SMTP.

hmmmm.

there are various good reasons why an organization (corporation,
school, government body) might want internal hops for outbound
mail. 

if you mandate one hop from an originating administrative zone
to a destination administrative zone, i could see that. i just think
that both ends of the transaction need the flexibility to manage
their internal infrastructure as they see fit.

richard
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