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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
Summary: Question...
Message-ID: <5075@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 19 Jul 89 13:46:09 GMT
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Assuming all the RFCs are followed, then someone at site A can
provide a valid source route which is converted to a bang path.

So you have no way of knowing whether a bang path was originally
a source route or not. If the intent was that bang paths and source
routes were not the same thing, converting one to the other would
seem a bad idea.

It seems to me that while the letter of the law would not require
it, the spirit implies a symmetry between bang paths and source
routes. It's impolite to break this symmetry.

What do gateways do with bang paths? Convert them to source routes?
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