Hi Matt,


Matt Bedynek wrote to Michiel Broek:
MB> Hello Michiel.
MB> 
MB> 24 Jun 04 20:01, you wrote to me:
MB> 
MB>  MB> For the far future that is true, but right now we are not ready yet.
MB>  MB> To work to that, we need some timetable with all needed steps. The
MB>  MB> first step should be to fix the SLF and standarize over all zones 
and
MB>  MB> see how we can solve some missing features in the existing SLF. It's
MB>  MB> not impossible.
MB> 
MB> So far, there has been a decent amount of testing done on the 
MB> -Unpublished- w/o Pvt.  It is far from ready and it is premature to 
assume

MB> whether this will be viable.  If it does prove to be then the only 

That looks promising until now.

MB> remaining problem for the SLF will be to determine the one spot to place 
MB> the IP or Hostname.  I believe that if those are solved then Fidonet can 
MB> take a step forward that it has not taken in a good 10 years.  It has 
MB> mostly been two steps forward, one step back.

Indeed, and for that place for the fqdn are several proposals, we just need
to decide which is prefered and deprecate the rest. It might be a problem
for the vmodem systems what the outcome will be.

But I see good chances to solve this.




    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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