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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/2/16 8:14 AM, David Froble wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote:

>> Multinet is offering a kind of DECnet Phase IV over IP interface,
>> using IP port 700. It is not covered by any RFC. I don't know if it
>> can be used with IPv6.
>>
>> The DEC/HP way of DECnet over IP is not only offering DECnet over IP,
>> but also OSI over IP (you can look at DECnet as just another OSI
>> application). It is covered by three RFC's, RFC1006, RFC1859, and
>> RFC2126, the latter is for IPv6.
>>
>> Both versions of DECnet over IP are incompatible.
>>
>> Now my simple question is, what should VSI offer, two incompatible
>> versions of DECnet over IP?
>>
>>
>
> If you look up thread at Michael Moroney's post, you'll see the
> reality.  He got DECnet built, but that's all the time VSI is going to
> put into DECnet.

Why do you think that providing an IP transport for DECnet would involve
modifying DECNet?