[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-08-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> It has occurred to me that VSI should have the opportunity to know who 
> is using x86 VMS.  From the beginning, they implement some sort of 
> reporting scheme.  For VMS to run, it has to check in with VSI.  There 
> may be situations where such is not feasible, but, that can also be handled.
>

SOD THAT !!!!!

That raises all kinds of security and denial of service issues.

People could be persuaded to allow this for a one-time licence
activation process but there's no way that many people are going
to allow that on an ongoing basis as part of the boot process and
then stop the boot if the check in with VSI fails.

What happens if you have external communications down ?

What happens if VSI have system availability issues ?

What happens if VSI goes bust ?

Simon.

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