Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/29/2000 22:07:15
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On 29 Dec 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

>> On the one hand, this is correct.  On the other hand, the project has
>> made a very strong effort to treat IPv6 and IPSec as first class
>> citizens in all respects -- people have worked very hard to make things
>> like NIS and NFS run over IPv6/IPSec, and even looked into making more
>> obscure things like ruptime and talk work (the latter will be Very Hard
>> (tm), btw).
>
>My point is that we should decide and document what we support. We do
>not have a documented commitement to support (for example) remote /usr
>over NFS over IPsec over vlan'd 802.11.
>
>I'll fight you over exactly what we should support, but I hope you
>won't give any argument that the current state of vaguely supporting
>"remote /usr" doesn't give us any sense of direction.

I'm with you on that.  Having said that, I'd place IPSec pretty high up
on the list of must-haves :-)

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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