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Subject: Re: standard interface
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 12:32:13 EST
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Drew,
	If what you are suggesting is a TSR which maps "standardized"
socket calls into "vendor X's TCP calls", then I think this is minimally
acceptable ("minimally" because of my feeling that for high performance one
needs something better than sockets).  It would certainly be a wonderful
step over what we have.

	What we (applications types, and systems administrators) need
is the ability to have one .EXE file for, say, telnet which will execute
on "all" our PC's.  Right now we can do this, but at the expense of
restricting our PC's to all run one vendor's TCP.

	So, if your proposal will allow us to do this, hurray!

	We can, I suppose, address the performance issues with some
follow-on work.

	A BOF at the TCP/IP conference sounds good.  For those who
haven't heard, the "TCP/IP Interoperability Conference" will be
held December 1-4, 1987, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in
Arlington, VA.  Contact Advanced Computing Environments at
(408)996-2042 for info.

Greg