Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 01:12:48 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <1990Aug8.214750.1614@wolves.uucp> <66582@sgi.sgi.com> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 20 Piercarlo Grandi writes: > Now, a (disingenuous) question for all the smart Internet people out > there: which RFC defines a way to pass mail thru a foreign address > gateway and express addresses beyond that gateway? Which is the RFC > sanctioned way to qualify an address with the gateway that can > understand it? Good Question! The key word you used was FOREIGN. The most appropriate definition I could find in my el cheapo American Heritage Second College Edition was the legal one: "subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit." If ever, the RFCs rarely refer to that which is outside the realm of TCP/IP. Of course they give great lattitude to that which may appear in the LOCAL part of an address. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]