[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-10-01 13:32:26 +0000, David Froble said:

> The way I understand it, DECnet IV doesn't know a thing about IP.  It 
> is a feature in Multinet that does the routing over IP.  So when you 
> mention DECnet over IP as if it is a DECnet feature, you've skirted 
> reality.

Discussions of DECnet are arguably skirting reality, too.

> Nor should you expect modifications to DECnet IV for any reasons, other 
> than to keep it usable in the future.

I'd prefer to see the license and support costs for DECnet increase 
incrementally, and preferably increasing enough to lead to migrations 
to IP networking, and to the eventual deprecation and removal of DECnet 
from the standard installation packaging.


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