Re: CAP & Latency

[Paul Hill <phill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce_Kahn@iris.com wrote:
> 
> One more thing I forgot to include yesterday...
> 
> >I think of this like EMAIL. I do not know your physical address.
> >My real intranet address is droyer@<some hidden host>.software.com.
> >Yet Doug.Royer@Software.com gets to me. Same issue.
> 
> Another way its is NOT like eMail is that in eMail routing, the only address that gets > rewritten is the destination one (from Doug.Royer@Software.com to droyer@<hidden host>.software.com).  The _sending_ address is not rewritten en route.

Your scenerio suggests that Doug's gateway doesn't rewrite your from address on your incoming
message, but you overlook one possibility that does exist.  Doug's gateway might rewrite 
Doug's from in Doug's outgoing message so that the message appears to be
from Doug.Royer@Software.com when it is really from droyer@<hidden host>.software.com.
This contradicts the statement that only the destination is rewritten.

Existing examples of this include large corporations which service their internet
mail through a large gateway mail machine and don't want the outside world to
know the names of internal machines and consider it a service so that
others don't have to keep track if someone moves machines within a company.

They also can provide the mapping from "droyer" to the more readable "Doug.Royer"
on the outgoing address.

I'm not sure how this relates to an analogous feature in i-calendar, but I
I thought I mention the extended nature of possible rewrites that do exist.

-Paul

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