Re: Applications Working Group
Aaron Schuman <schuman@eacces.wpd.sgi.com> Mon, 20 July 1992 19:54 UTC
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 12:01:52 -0700
From: Aaron Schuman <schuman@eacces.wpd.sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Applications Working Group
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================================================================== >>> Submissions to the tsig list: tsig@wdl1.wdl.loral.com >>> Additions/deletions/questions: tsig-request@wdl1.wdl.loral.com >>> Archive Server: listserv@wdl1.wdl.loral.com ================================================================== Stan W> I would like your feedback on this proposed group. Stan W> The scope of the working group could include API Stan W> issues for secure mail, trusted databases, secure Stan W> ftp and telnet, and X applications. Gary W> Isn't POSIX.6 just such an API? Won't the platform/OS Gary W> companies be compelled to provide .6? I realize that Gary W> .6 is not done quite yet, but wonder if proposing an Gary W> alternative API to .6 is a wise use of TSIG time. I appreciate Stan's predicament. He's trying to port a trusted multilevel distributed database to several multilevel platforms, and their interfaces share no resemblance. POSIX .6 doesn't begin to address interfaces to multilevel network protocols. If POSIX .6 were adopted and universally implemented tomorrow, Stan would still have to deal with syntactic and semantic differences between one company's lrecvmsg(), another's recvlmsg(), and a third's recvmsgl(). Still, I agree with Gary. TSIG has enough excitement resolving technical and territorial issues with IETF. Trying to also become the fast-path alternative to POSIX will spread TSIG much too thin. Most of the vendors who participate in TSIG also send delegates to .6. Perhaps one of those representatives should start a trusted network API discussion. Aaron ............................................................................. Aaron Schuman 415-390-1901 schuman@sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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