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Re: Operations requirement: no hop-by-hop

2004-03-10 15:32:57

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/
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