[Info-vax] Reinventing VMS logical names (Fuchsia & Win NT)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/9/2023 11:07 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <uiishi$28arh$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>> If you look at the original plans for DECnet/OSI in the late 80's/early 90's,
>> the expectation was that the distributed naming service would be used for much more than
>> node name lookup.
>>
>> I was a customer at the time, so at that point, I was hearing rumours, but a big concern was
>> how many naming servers would one need for clusters of varying sizes.
>>
>> VSI has all the old internal DEC Notes conferences; reading some of the internal
>> communication around that time, it's apparent that concern was HUGE deal with the sales force,
>> as that was a constant question coming from customers.
>>
>> As we all know, the project became quite delayed, and among the aspects of the project that got
>> tossed was the DNS as a broker of all objects.
>>
>> Yeah, that would not have addressed the security aspects noted by Jake, but it would have been
>> an interesting start.
> 
> This makes perfect sense.  There was a lot of "distributed
> object" stuff "in the air" back then; I can well imagine DEC
> feeling like they had to come up with a response to DCE.

DEC's response to DCE was DCE.

https://vmssoftware.com/products/dce/

Arne