[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-04 12:29, Javier Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm via Info-vax <
> info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>
>> And since "DECnet over IP" is based on the specification for "OSI over IP",
>> I'd guess that you can't easily shoehorn that into DECnet IV. Either you
>> would change DECnet IV to use the ISO model (but then you have DECnet V),
>> or you develope a whole other interface to IP not based on "OSI over IP".
>>
>
> MultiNet has "IP services for DECnet", which presents a DECnet-like
> interface but uses IP.
>
> "DECnet application services let applications designed to execute over
> DECnet to execute over TCP/IP instead. DECnet application services provide
> the same DECnet API (Application Programmer Interface) seamlessly across
> TCP without DECnet protocols or software, and without the additional
> overhead of running both protocol stacks."

This sounds interesting, and not something I've seen anything about before.
Do you have any more details on how this is implemented

	Johnny