Re: RE: Delete all and replace is practical

[Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred,


>>The core problem of email as far as I am concerned is the interminable
>>forwarding problem.
> 
> There I will disagree. The present model in fact gets messages from where 
> they are to where they need to go.

Well, the concern for complexity in the core is always worth considering.  
However, getting rid of multi-hop SMTP relaying is only the tip of the 
iceburg.  Personally I think that having all those IP routers doing store and
forward is a far greater source of problems. 

Let's just fully interconnect every host.

<Sermon>

On the other hand, perhaps intermediaries are a natural part of 
packet-switching, as I was raised to believe, and perhaps the Internet was 
quite specifically created on the basis that global homogeneity is not a 
realistic goal, neither at the packet-switching level nor the administrative 
level.

Tussles abound.  They always have.  It seems likely they always will.

Store and forward is a model that permits handling those boundaries. 

Let's not complain about intermediation points.  They have provided 
interesting careers for most of us. 

</Sermon>

d/


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