[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rg83gg$e9s$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> Seriously ? That's a priority target ? How many of you are still using
> this in production for VSI to justify porting it at this time ?
> 
> The only place that stack should be is in the computer history museum.
> 
> I hope VSI are giving the stack itself a good audit while porting it
> because if the TCP/IP stack suffers from security issues, then you
> can safely assume the DECnet Phase IV stack does as well (just like
> any other networking stack does).

There are probably quite a few places still running DECnet Phase IV, but
probably mostly entirely within a secure internal network (in which case
security concerns are probably moot; if someone is listning there, there 
are much more serious problems) or even within a single cluster or a 
single machine.  For example, the OSU webserver calls itself via DECnet, 
on the same machine.  Many people using it never upgraded to Phase V.

For many things DECnet does, it just works, whereas TCPIP can be flaky.