[Info-vax] A few notes from VMS TUD days i Stockholm today.

[IanMiller]

On 25 Sep, 03:18, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> > - IPsec comes during 2010.
>
> Could this news possibly create a miracle and make Mr Maher happy for 30
> seconds ? :-)
>
> > - POP and IMAP services will get support for ACME.
>
> By "ACME", you mean the now standard user authentication routines on VMS
> which do the intrusion detection and proper logging which both services
> lacked ?
>
> Did they provide a time estimate for when this security "patch" would be
> delivered ?
>
> Out of curiosity, could they release a version (8.4 as an example)
>  that has support for yet-unreleased chip (Tukwila for example) ? I
> assume that HP has had samples to play with and test for a while now.
>
> Just wondering if they couldn't just release 8.4 with the Tyuwila
> support already in it so that it can run out fo the box when Tukwila
> actually comes out ?  Or Is TRukwila still at a stage where many changes
> could still happen to how an OS interfaces to it ?



The next version of TCPIP, V5.7, is planned to include POP and IMAP
that use ACME services and therefore do things properly.

Tukwila - it's delayed so HP chose to separate Tukwila support from
VMS V8.4 so V8.4 is not delayed. Remember its not just the chip from
Intel but the whole system around it including firmware that has to be
completed then properly tested and each operating system qualified to
run on it. It's better this is done right than rushed.