Re: draft-crocker-email-arch-03

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>]

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. 

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