Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:09:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Sender: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: A suggestion for IPv6 domain literals
To: "Eric Norman (MACC)" <EJNORMAN@macc.wisc.edu>
Cc: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, drums@cs.utk.edu
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On Tue, 23 Jan 96 23:01 CDT, Eric Norman (MACC) wrote:
> 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.

I object to this.  Domain literals are invaluable when the DNS is broken, or
for logging purposes.

It may be alright to unify the IN-ADDR.ARPA and domain literals syntax, but
the function itself is necessary.

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

I object *very* strongly to any move to deprecate group syntax.  We use it.

The Encrypted: header sure does seem to be useless.  But, I recently came up
with a possible use for it; as a *fast* way to determine whether a message has
encrypted contents without looking deeper into the message's MIME structure.