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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <hc05rh$c4f$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
>> 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?
> 
>    I don't work for HP, but testing and certification of reliable code
>    across a great many hardware platforms takes time.  I would not like
>    to see VMS Engineering start cutting corners on testing.
> 

Which "great many" hardware platforms are we talking about?  I count 
three: VAX, Alpha, and Itanic.  And I'd be willing to dispense with 
Itanic!  If you have to test with every processor speed, every memory 
size, every combination of I/O devices. . . .