9 Dec
2021
9 Dec
'21
8:52 p.m.
On Dec 9, 2021, at 2:39 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
That's a nice hack.
Were we to have source to the various NICE executables, I would say that the thing to do
would be to a "location" field in addition to the identification field.
That's easy enough in principle, the protocol is readily extensible. The difficulty
of course would be to extend the NCP and NML implementations to deliver that new
attribute.
Another thing would be a DECnet DNS, which is
something that has been on my list to do (enhance Chives)
DECdns is a standard Phase V feature. I have never used it but I remember participating
in the design of that specification; it's got a bunch of neat capabilities. Come to
think of it the DEC time service would also be interesting to have.
paul