[HECnet] Re: PyDECnet T1.1 beta 2

Question for PyDECnet users: as I mentioned, there's a new API, cleaner than the old one. A major addition is access to the Session Control layer, in other words external programs can talk to the API to use DECnet communication services, inbound or outbound. This is how I implemented a simple subset NCP and NFT. That API runs over a Unix domain socket, in connection mode. It's quite similar to TCP but inherently local to the machine where PyDECnet is running. That's nice for security, of course. But on the other hand, it means that there isn't a way for a PyDECnet running on one machine to offer a portal into DECnet for nearby machines. If you keep a DECnet router in the basement, your laptop can't run NCP since it has no access to that socket. It would not be all that difficult to add an option for running that same API over a TCP port, possibly with some sort of access filtering. Is there interest in such a thing? paul