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From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: perry@imsi.com
cc: drums@CS.UTK.EDU, moore@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: getting started 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 May 1995 18:36:58 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 19:28:27 -0400
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> 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?

I don't think this is a problem.  It's not really new functionality
in the mail protocols, it's just a matter of updating 822 to reflect 
changes in IP.

I also don't think it's anything that should occupy a lot of our
concern at this point.  I've heard it suggested that a single WG
should look at all of the places where IP addresses are used in
higher protocols, and fix them all in the same way at the same time.
If that were to happen, our only task would be to update the 822
grammar to reflect the new address format.

Keith