[e2e] end2end vs smtp

[Scott Brim]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 04:33:15PM +0000, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> Is it me, or does point 1 of
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Announcements/draft-bose-smtp-integrity.ann
> 
> completely neglect the end2end argument?

TCP is end-to-end.

The IESG is right.  To the extent that the draft has a point (that TCP's
checksum limitations are becoming more significant now that people are
sending huge files in mail), there are better ways to address it, some
of them already deployed.

..Scott