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Subject: Re: TCP/IP on VMS
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> I would like to rally some support from info-vax readers. I would like
> to see TCP/IP from DEC ...

It is rumored that Digital may soon begin marketing TWG's TCP/IP for VMS.
Likely, TWG or DEC will modify the package slightly before this happens ...
but don't expect anything dramatic (like putting the lower level details
into the DELUA).

Even if this rumor is true, I wouldn't expect a great deal of support
from Digital for TCP/IP.  They're committed to moving DECNET towards
ISO standards -- which has nothing to do with TCP/IP.

I agree with Marty that there's probably a much larger market out there
than Digital may think, and out here we're definitely pinging on our sales
rep about this.

However ...

> ... At a networking
> session at the last DECUS symposium there were only two or three
> hands raised when the speaker asked the audience about TCP/IP.

Which should tell us something.  I didn't attend that particular session,
but at the ones I did it was clear that the mass majority were primarily
interested in DECNET.  I suspect DEC will listen more closely to them.

I'm not sure who originally said, "the wonderful thing about networking
standards is that there are so many of them," but it's true, and one
company can hardly support all of them.