Re: Government of Canada X.400/SMTP Gateway

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To: ietf-osi-x400ops@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: Government of Canada X.400/SMTP Gateway

I fully agree with Harald objection to the appeareance on the Internet
of another non conformant gateway between rfc822 and x.400 (84).

Being a service sitting both on Internet and an X.400 MHS, it has an 
extremely high chance to send/receive messages which crossed already,
or will cross in the future before reching their final destination,
another rfc822/x.400 gateway. With the current non standard behaviour
of the proposed Canadian gateway, this will result in unasable addresses
and undelevered or looping reports quite soon.

More over, as soon as one of those messages with non standard DDAs generated
at the Canadian gateway will reach another main international gateway
between the Internet and the X.400 MHS (the Cosine Gateway Serivce), they
will, no matter the incoming mail protocol, result in a totally funny and
unasable (and unrepliable) address.

If this causes serious troubles, we will be forced to remove routing for
the mentioned canadian domains, in order to avoid major troubles to the
whole Internet and X.400 MHS community.

Thus, please, installa an RFC 1327 conformant gateway if you want to provide
a real service to your users.

Thank you indeed for consideration.
Regards

Claudio Allocchio
Cosine Gateway Service Manager
Trieste - Italy - Europe