Message-Id: <26012323015652@vms3.macc.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 23:01 CDT
From: "Eric Norman (MACC)" <EJNORMAN@macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: A suggestion for IPv6 domain literals
To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
CC: drums@cs.utk.edu

> If we use hexstring.ip6.int, we must muck around with the part of the
> code that handles domain names instead of the part that handles
> domain literals.
> In both cases, the addresses aren't replyable by old mailers; this
> is unavoidable, I think.

> What do people think is cleanest?

I think domain literals should be eliminated.  They've been
deprecated ever since day one; it's time to just say bye-bye to 'em.

They may have served a marginal purpose way back when we had
to use host tables.  Now we have the domain system; if someone
can't get a name in it, they have no business speaking SMTP.

There are other things that should go also.  Two that I can
think of offhand are the Encrypted: header and the group:;
construct.

-- Eric Norman