Re: IIGS specific graphics web browser for IIGS specific web sites!

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 20 Oct 98 00:59:56 GMT, toh@victoria.tc.ca (Marc Sira) wrote:

|>If you mean the name server negotiation stuff, it's not proprietary - it's
|>just a protocol layering violation, and was repeatedly rejected by the
|>standards committee for that reason, as well as the utter cluelessness of the
|>Microsoftians in their proposal for it. M$ just doesn't get standards
|>processes, or well-designed network protocols for that matter. There is a
|>right way to get name server addresses (and a lot of other config) over a
|>newly-established PPP link, but that's not it. Unfortunately, the right
|>way isn't complete yet, so a lot of vendors (including Apple on Macs) have
|>jumped on that bandwagon, which slightly reduces the long-term technical
|>viability of PPP.

nope.  that's not what i was referring to.  this DOES make good
reading, though.  <g>  doesn't really surprise me, though; the folks
at PunySquishy don't seem to care very much for anything that remotely
resembles a standard unless it actually benefits THEM....

|>If you mean the weird version of CHAP that NT servers use by default, it's
|>again not proprietary, although there are many and sufficient other reasons
|>not to use it.

that's it.  i thank you for pointing out that it's not proprietary,
but i don't know of anyone else that uses it, so....  <shrug>

Regards,

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William Smith
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