[78054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: draft-crocker-email-arch-03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Thu Feb 17 11:26:38 2005
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:26:11 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4214C365.2080800@solid-state-logic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:16:37 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> I've rename MHS to MTA (mail transport agent) which is the proper
> technical term. I guess there's a reason why you didn't use MTA?
Needed an additional term:
> Abstract
>
> ... and the transmission world, in the form of the Mail
> Handling Service (MHS) composed of Mail Transfer Agents (MTA).
MTA is a single relay. MHS is the set of mail transfer components that form the entire service. So, it is the set of MSA, MTAs and MDA.
I chose the particular term by resurrecting an existing one, from the X.400 world, where UA/MTA terminology was created. As the current document developed, the need for a term that referred to the entire infrastructure service kept appearing.
And since I'm citing history, I'll note further x.400 irony: It had Administrative Management Domains (ADMD) but it had it as a core construct in the underlying technical architecture. The current doc uses it as an operations construct.
d/
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