Re: Operations requirement: no hop-by-hop
Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:33:01 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.ng |
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| Organization | Brandenburg InternetWorking |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Paul, PHI> The mail-ng transport protocol should be designed to only know about PHI> a single hop, from sender to recipient. The sender may have multiple PHI> hops to a designated transport agent, and the receiving transport PHI> agent may have multiple hops to a mailstore, but the transport PHI> protocol should not make any accommodation for these additional hops PHI> other than to allow them to add metadata to the transit stream. These PHI> requirements are to make the protocol more sensible and to limit the PHI> responsibility of operators to just what they control. How is this different from the current SMTP model? d/ -- Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>