[net.mail.headers] Addressing in international environments

DBrown.TSDC@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (02/17/84)

  With respect, I disagree.
  My understanding of the domain/nameserver scheme is that Vortex's
machine sends to a machine which knows about the domain "DEC",
(hopefully almost anyone), and that machine, if it does not *itself*
know how to reach the DEC net, passes it on to a host which it has
listed in its' local name server as accepting responsability for mail to
all of DECNET.
  That machine, presumably a DEC mail gateway, then has the
responsability of forwarding (or refusing) the mail to the proper site
in the proper country, obeying all the trans-border data-flow
regulations then in force.
  So Lauren's machine (and my baby bun) need not know any explicit paths
or mailing heuristics because of the "domain of responsability" design
of the ARPA Internet.
  --dave (why should *i* understand DECNET?) brown