Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!DBrown.TSDC@HI-MULTICS.ARPA From: DBrown.TSDC@HI-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Addressing in international environments Message-ID: <286@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 17:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.286 Posted: Thu Feb 16 17:01:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 04:49:59 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 16 To: John R. CovertCc: Header-People@MIT-MC, namedroppers@SRI-NIC In-Reply-To: Message of 16 February 1984 12:28 est from John R. Covert With respect, I disagree. My understanding of the domain/nameserver scheme is that Vortex's machine sends to a machine which knows about the domain "DEC", (hopefully almost anyone), and that machine, if it does not *itself* know how to reach the DEC net, passes it on to a host which it has listed in its' local name server as accepting responsability for mail to all of DECNET. That machine, presumably a DEC mail gateway, then has the responsability of forwarding (or refusing) the mail to the proper site in the proper country, obeying all the trans-border data-flow regulations then in force. So Lauren's machine (and my baby bun) need not know any explicit paths or mailing heuristics because of the "domain of responsability" design of the ARPA Internet. --dave (why should *i* understand DECNET?) brown