[Info-vax] The continued ham-stringing of IPsec/VMS - Cui Bono? - TUDs - Bobby Ewing

[Richard Maher]

Hi,

For those of you that have trouble locating this official(ish) information,
I certainly did(1), here is the latest I could find: -

OpenVMS today and tomorrow
Networking Products and Printer Support
*** H2 2010 IPSEC ***
*** H1 2010 TCP/IP v5.7 for OpenVMS v8.4 (Integrity and Alpha) ***
. IP Cluster Interconnect
. Packet Processing Engine
. NFS enhancements
. FTP enhancements: Browser compatibility, Anonymous Light, SSL
. LPD port configurability
. Cluster-friendly SMTP
H1 2009 DCPS v2.7 (Integrity, Alpha and VAX)
Q4 2009 Common Internet File System (CIFS) V1.2 (Integrity and Alpha)
. Support for Kerberos, Integration of the latest SAMBA stabilization
changes.
. USB printer support (Integrity and Alpha)

So while it's great to see IPsec doing a Bobby Ewing and getting to live
another day, I just cannot understand how it could possibly take another 12
months to certify code that is already there, and will already have shipped
in H1 2010 with TCP/IP 5.7.

Can someone please explain to me what obstacles are preventing IPsec from
being supported in H1 2010 with VMS 8.4?

Now I certainly have my opinions as to which poisonous self-serving bastards
at HP/VMS stand to benefit from any possible delay in this essential
e-business infrastructure, but I really like to hear what other people
think. (Arne, feel free to sit this one out :-)

Cheers Richard Maher

(1) This came from Jan-Erik's Swedish TUD presentation link (Although it is
invisible to my PDF readers. A search found it and I had to cut and paste it
somewhere else to see it. Anyone else?) Not on the German TUD stuff and
certainly not on the vary outdated RoadMap on the www.hp.com/go/vms pages.