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Re: Making Zephyr a standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J Brashear)
Thu Mar 6 11:57:33 1997
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:35:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
Reply-To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199703061629.LAA06137@the-dark-side.mit.edu>
> Well, I am afraid that not everyone agrees on a common
> authentication system yet. PGP is well used, as is
> kerberos, but many places still don't use either,
> and well, if you want zephyr to become an internet
> standard, you are going to have to get people
> to agree on a few ground rules in their computing
There is no one true authentication system, true, but it might be more
interesting, assuming more work were to be done on Zephyr, to make it able to
support more authentication systems; Other options for this sort of service
(which IRC is certainly one of) weren't really designed with authentication in
mind and would presumably be harder to extend for it.
> enviornment. Besides, I was just joshing you with
> IRC. :)
I guessed:-)
My opinion at this point is that there needs to be better interrealm support,
and while it may or may not be the interrealm code written at CMU that I ported
forward to 2.0.x and which is currently in the 2.1 beta stuff, if it does not
involve server peering as opposed to clients using remote servers directly for
broadcast messages that it won't scale well. In my case it won;t as I fully
intend to have a Zephyr server in my house, and I'll be damned if I'm wiping
out a T1 with broadcast Zephyr traffic.
-D
