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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2023-11-09 15:06:26 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> 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.

There are still some tie-ins for DECdns around in a few dusty corners 
of DECnet Phase IV, too.

Elsewhere, all that got replaced by LDAP. Which is arguably only 
"lightweight" in comparision to its X.500 progenitor. But I digress.

Alas, OpenVMS completely missed out on incorporating LDAP in many 
places where it probably should have, but that addition would have been 
a larger project for less return.

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