Re: ideas getting shot down

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Eliot Lear wrote:
>      there was something of a view that the whole point of 
> MXes was for the MX relay to bridge between online and offline devices.  
> It was well understood at the time that MANY more systems were in fact 
> on the networks that you mentioned than were on the ARPANET.  And I 
> would even argue that there MXes solved a major problem, which was that 
> there was that sites that sat on both UUCP and the Internet often times  
> Got It Wrong with regard to the precedence of "!".  The abstraction that 
> MX provided made relaying behavior much more explicit.  I think this was 
> understood at the time.


+1

UUCP, Bitnet, CSNet, oh and let's not forget Arpanet-to-Internet transition 
(FTP to SMTP mail)...

Administrative boundaries are not just bookkeeping constructs. They can have 
fundamentla technical impact.  Take, for example, exterior routing technology 
versus interior.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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