[506] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Commercial services I'd like to see
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nowicki)
Tue Apr 2 16:47:11 1991
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 12:07:22 PST
From: nowicki@Legato.COM (Bill Nowicki)
To: steve@cise.nsf.gov
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Subject: Commercial services I'd like to see
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 91 10:13:52 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.nsf.gov>
Rather, we have yet to come up with a scheme in which, for
every entity that installs an item in the Global Yellow Pages,
there are INCENTIVES for that entity to keep the set of
replicated entries up-to-date - on whatever timescale is
appropriate...
Actually, we at Legato have developed a technology called the Resource
Administration Platform (RAP) that tries to address this issue. That
is, we integrate the administration of a service's attributes with the
automatic registration of the relatively static ones, and the polling
of the dynamic ones. I gave a brief presentation to the Dynamic Host
Configuration Working Group at IETF in Vancover last year, and just
finished some demos at "Connectathon" last week in San Jose.
Unfortunately we are having a hard time getting people to use RAP
because "it is not CMIP" or "it is not X.500". So instead we are
trying to sell the software to do the services themselves (e.g.
backup, NFS administration, TCP/IP service administration, performance
monitoring, etc.).
-- Bill Nowicki
Legato Systems
