At 01:41 AM 9/4/2002 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote:
you were somehow implying that email's hop-by-hop nature was a relevant point of distinction.on 9/4/2002 1:05 AM Dave Crocker wrote: > 2. To use your own perspective, DNS is a hop-by-hop system, when > viewed properly. Indeed it is, ... I have also said that a *complete* migration of the DNS service would be a 20 year effort, so I don't know what your statement hopes to disprove.
The comparison was not between their full architectures.>> They have different usage models and different architectures. > > they have the same architecture. 8-bit data translated onto a 7-bit > environment. MIME provides multiple data-types with multiple codecs, with applications being able to choose among the data-types and codecs that are best suited to that specific usage. IDNA provides a single [usable] data-type with a single codec. They are completely different architectures.
thanks for the demonstration of professional superiority. we all can learn from it.Your mix of ignorance and paternalistic politics is what makes people think of you as an intellectually and spiritually weak troll, crocker.