Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.180006.19362@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8910141823.AA20101@uunet.uu.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 18:00:06 GMT

In article <8910141823.AA20101@uunet.uu.net> rick@UUNET.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>	... The "% hack"
>	is ugly, difficult to parse correctly at Internet--othernet gateways,
>	and not needed.
>
>Funny, thats exactly how I (and lots of others) have been describing
>the rfc822 source routing. I assure you that the rfc822 source routing
>is MUCH more difficult to parse that the % hack.

Also, if I am not mistaken -- I am behind on my RFC reading, and could
be wrong about this -- the host-requirements RFCs say source routes may 
contain only Internet-registered domains.  That is, you *need* the %
hack to do *real* internetworking (talking to other networks).
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu