Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!rogue.llnl.gov!oberman
From: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future?
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.183437.1@rogue.llnl.gov>
Date: 26 Aug 90 01:34:37 GMT
References: <9008242107.AA19843@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV
Lines: 24

In article <9008242107.AA19843@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JAZBO@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
("James H. Coombs") writes:
> 
> Sun now states that no new applications should be developed at the socket
> level.  They recommend 1) RPC or 2) TIL(?--which starts with SunOS 4.1). RPC
> has several advantages:
>

This is very disturbing. The Sun RPC is propriatary and I don't believe a part
of the DOD protocol suite. It is also NOT the RPC in the OSF DCE. As a result I
don't think software written for the SUN RPC is going to be very portable when
compared to socket or stream binding.

We've already seen a bit of this attitude in the Sun network management
software. It supports access only by RPC, not SNMP. This makes out Suns more
difficult to manage than most any box on the net which is manageable!

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.