Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!mirsa.inria.Fr!huitema From: huitema@mirsa.inria.Fr (Christian Huitema) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway Subject: Re: Proposed delta to RFC 987 Message-ID: <8806211553.AA28947@inria.inria.fr> Date: 21 Jun 88 20:01:11 GMT Sender: root@tis.llnl.gov Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 Approved: post-x400-gateway@tis.llnl.gov > > Damm it - you lot really disapoint me. Everyone standing up for pragmatic > hacks, and no-one wanting to do things properly. It all depends what you call "hacks" and what you call "properly". In practice, "properly" implies convincing the whole Internet to stop using gateway addresses -- probably a lengthy process. And the "hack" is often needed to get rid of the source routing which was not present at first, but which has been elegantly added by address rewriters (a la sendmail) in the successive relays.. Fact is that the swamps are muddy. Christian Huitema