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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/7/21 7:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

What happens if your on SIPRnet?  :-)

bill