To: "Eric Norman (MACC)" <EJNORMAN@macc.wisc.edu>
Cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: A suggestion for IPv6 domain literals 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:01:00 CDT."
             <26012323015652@vms3.macc.wisc.edu> 
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:32:53 +1100
Message-Id: <8200.822511973@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>

    Date:        Tue, 23 Jan 96 23:01 CDT
    From:        "Eric Norman (MACC)" <EJNORMAN@macc.wisc.edu>
    Message-ID:  <26012323015652@vms3.macc.wisc.edu>

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

I suspect about as much has been said about this as needs to
be said - we need domain literals, and group:; is useful.

On Encrypted - I suspect it is useless, but what can we really
do about it?   I suspect that the most that can be done is a
"don't send this header" warning, which would be fine, but of
little benefit - after all, the reason it would be deprecated
would be because no-one sends it, right?   Receivers would
still need to be able to handle it, just in case there is
someone out there who is using it.   Looks like no nett gain.

kre