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To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: getting started 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 May 1995 18:15:59 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 18:36:58 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>


Keith Moore writes:
> So now is the time for members to carefully re-examine the mail RFCs,
> and see what problems you find.
[...]
> A reminder: the DRUMS working group is specifically forbidden from
> defining new features.  If there are bugs in the functionality that
> 821, 822 etc. were intended to address, we can try to fix those, but
> we cannot arbitrarily add things to the mail system.

There is one feature that I can think of that isn't present in the
current specifications that might be needed in the Brave New IPv6
Internet. I'm not sure if it counts as a new feature or as a revision.

Essentially, we currently have a syntax for sending mail to IPv4
addresses without knowing the name of the host, but have no comparable
mechanism for IPv6. It would seem to be a useful thing. However, are
we forbidden from doing this?

Perry