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Subject: Re: Proposal for use of DNS to store RFC 987, etc mappings
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Date: 27 Jul 90 17:04:18 GMT
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Stef,Piet:

I am sorry, but i really don't get it yet.  Could some one tell me about
these networks that use RFC-822 and are not part of the Internet, and don't
have access to the DNS?  I could imagine such a situation, but i don't
know of any actually existing.

I really don't understand at all what Stef is getting at by "we cannot
build a system that requires full network connectivity for every gateway".
It seems crazy to me to imagine that we can have a gateways that are not
connected to the network.  And if "there will always be some significant
set of hosts that will not have full network connectivity", lets be sure
not to use them as gateways, and lets be sure that while we provide for
them we do not limit the connected hosts to the lowest common denominator
of mechanisms and procedures.

--jon.