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DCE Survey Results |
The DCE Forum conducted a survey to identify the DCE features, current and future, that they consider most important and useful. The survey was circulated by E-mail prior to the April members' meeting, and conducted on paper ballots at the meeting.
A list of features was presented, and the respondents were asked to rate them on a scale of 1 to 5. They were also asked to write in additional features they would like to see in DCE.
A total of twenty-eight responses were received. The results are presented here.
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Feature |
Average |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
Security Authentication |
4.7 |
0.5 |
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2 |
Security Authorization |
4.6 |
0.6 |
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3 |
Security Service |
4.5 |
0.6 |
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4 |
DFS Distributed File System |
4.4 |
0.8 |
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5 |
Security Data Integrity |
4.4 |
0.8 |
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6 |
Security Public key |
4.3 |
0.7 |
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7 |
Remote Procedure Call combined with security |
4.3 |
0.7 |
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8 |
Thread Service multiprocessing capability |
4.2 |
1.0 |
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9 |
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) |
4.2 |
0.8 |
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10 |
Kerberos based authentication service |
4.2 |
0.8 |
If all the "security" features were combined, the current features rated with a mean of 3.9 or higher were:
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Average |
Standard Deviation |
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Security |
4.4 |
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DFS |
4.3 |
0.7 |
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RPC combined with security |
4.3 |
0.8 |
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Thread Service |
4.2 |
1.0 |
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RPC |
4.2 |
0.8 |
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Directory Services |
4.2 |
1.0 |
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Thread Synchronization |
4.1 |
1.0 |
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File replication |
4.0 |
0.9 |
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Serviceability |
4.0 |
0.9 |
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Certificate API |
3.9 |
0.7 |
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Choice among platforms |
3.9 |
1.1 |
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RPC Daemon |
3.9 |
0.8 |
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Auditing Service per-machine |
3.9 |
0.9 |
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Features |
Average |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
Interoperability with Windows, Windows NT, Mac, SGI, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and others |
4.6 |
0.6 |
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2 |
Real integration with public key cryptographic infrastructures |
4.5 |
0.6 |
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3 |
Directory consistency with industry direction for LDAP |
4.4 |
0.9 |
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4 |
LDAP support |
4.4 |
0.9 |
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5 |
Solid CDS |
4.4 |
0.8 |
Lowest Mean Average of Current Features: 3.5 and less:
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Features |
Average |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
Netware Gateway |
2.3 |
1.3 |
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2 |
International characters interoperability |
2.5 |
1.2 |
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3 |
Time Service |
3.2 |
0.9 |
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4 |
C++ IDL Compiler |
3.3 |
1.0 |
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5 |
Host Management Service |
3.5 |
0.7 |
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6 |
DCE Encapsulation |
3.5 |
1.1 |
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7 |
DCE polymorphism |
3.5 |
1.2 |
Mean Average of 3.5 or Lower out of the Desired Future Features/Enhancements:
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Features |
Average |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
DCE/Novell integration |
2.6 |
1.2 |
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2 |
DME print services in DFS complete |
3.1 |
1.1 |
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3 |
Better performance in regard to Secure LAN, SWAN, |
3.5 |
1.0 |
Most Agreement on Ratings of Current Features = Lowest Standard Deviation:
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Features |
Average |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
DCE/Novell integration |
2.6 |
1.2 |
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2 |
DME print services in DFS complete |
3.1 |
1.1 |
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3 |
Better performance in regard to Secure LAN, SWAN, |
3.5 |
1.0 |
Most Agreement on Ratings of Desired Future Features/Enhancements
= Lowest Standard Deviation:
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Features |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
Real integration with public-key cryptographic infrastructures |
0.6 |
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2 |
Interoperability with Windows, Windows NT, Mac, SGI, |
0.6 |
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3 |
Improved development tool support |
0.7 |
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4 |
Transactional RPC |
0.7 |
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5 |
Optional pre-authentication to enable mobile use |
0.8 |
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6 |
Cross Cell Authentication forwarding |
0.8 |
Least Agreement on Ratings of Current Features = Highest Standard Deviation:
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Features |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
Netware Gateway |
1.3 |
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2 |
International characters interoperability |
1.2 |
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3 |
DCE Polymorphism |
1.2 |
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4 |
Choice among platforms |
1.1 |
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5 |
DCE encapsulation |
1.1 |
Least Agreement on Ratings of Desired Future Features/Enhancements
= Highest Standard Deviation:
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Features |
Standard Deviation |
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1 |
DCE/Novell integration |
1.3 |
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2 |
Robust directory with federated naming |
1.2 |
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3 |
DNS IP renumbering and Ipv6 support |
1.1 |
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4 |
DME print services in DFS complete |
1.1 |
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5 |
Interoperability between DCE Snare Tellnet Client and |
1.1 |
Current Features with Mode Average of 5:
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Directory Service CDE and LDAP |
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RPC |
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RPC combined with security |
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Servicability |
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Single log-in |
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Kerberos-based authentication service |
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Security Service |
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Security Authentication |
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Security Authorization |
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Security Data Integrity |
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Security Data Privacy |
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Auditing Services per-machine audit and trace services |
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DFS |
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Thread Service |
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Thread Synchronization |
Desired Future Features/Enhancements with Mode Average of 5:
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Real integration with public-key cryptographic infrastructures |
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Directory consistency with industry direction for LDAP |
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DNS IP renumbering and Ipv6 support |
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Security with delegation and general adoption of gss api |
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DCE working with CORBA |
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DCE firewall support |
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LDAP support |
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Pluggable multicrypto capability |
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Single reference implementation for interoperability and consistent administration |
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Interoperability with Windows, Windows NT, Mac, SGI, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and others |
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Solid CDS |
Current Features with Median Average of 5:
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Single log-in |
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Security Authentication |
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Security Authorization |
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Security Data Integrity |
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DFS |
Lowest Median = 2:
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Netware Gateway |
Desired Future Features/Enhancements with Median Average of 5:
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Interoperability with Windows, Windos NT, Mac, SG, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and others |
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Solid CDS |
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Mean |
Mode |
St. Dev |
Feature |
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4.2 |
5 |
1.1 |
Directory Services - CDS and LDAP |
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4.0 |
4 |
0.9 |
Directory Service - single global hierarchical naming model |
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3.6 |
4 |
1.1 |
Off the shelf browsers and servers to interact with DCE naming |
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3.1 |
3 |
1.1 |
X.500 based Global Directory Services |
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4.3 |
5 |
0.7 |
Remote procedure call combined with security |
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4.2 |
5 |
0.8 |
Remote Procedure call (RPC) |
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3.9 |
4 |
0.8 |
RPC Daemon - Dynamic startup and management of servers |
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3.8 |
4 |
1.0 |
Common basic Remote procedure call structure with NT |
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3.9 |
4 |
0.7 |
Certificate API |
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3.0 |
3 |
0.8 |
Tcl based administrative tools |
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4.0 |
5 |
0.9 |
Serviceability - better error messages plus problem determination guide |
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2.5 |
3 |
1.2 |
International characters interoperability |
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2.3 |
1 |
1.3 |
Netware Gateway |
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3.2 |
3 |
0.9 |
Time Service - synchronizes the system clocks throughout network |
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3.5 |
3 |
0.7 |
Host Management Service - per-machine and remote execution services |
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3.9 |
4 |
1.1 |
Choice among platforms |
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4.5 |
5 |
0.6 |
Single log-in |
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3.7 |
3 |
0.8 |
Seamless, multi-tier computing model |
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4.0 |
4 |
0.9 |
File replication |
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4.2 |
4 |
0.8 |
Kerberos-based authentication service(both client and server) |
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4.5 |
5 |
0.6 |
Security Service |
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4.2 |
4 |
0.7 |
Security - private key |
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4.3 |
4 |
0.7 |
Security - public key |
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4.7 |
5 |
0.6 |
Security - authentication |
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4.6 |
5 |
0.6 |
Security - authorization |
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4.4 |
5 |
0.8 |
Security - data integrity |
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4.3 |
5 |
0.9 |
Security - data privacy |
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3.9 |
5 |
0.9 |
Auditing Service - per-machine audit and trace services |
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3.3 |
3 |
1.0 |
C++ IDL compiler - to use C++ to write DCE programs |
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4.4 |
5 |
0.8 |
Distributed File Service - access to files across a network |
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4.2 |
5 |
1.0 |
Threads Service - multiprocessing capability |
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4.1 |
5 |
1.0 |
Thread synchronization |
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4.1 |
4 |
0.9 |
Thread-safe system calls |
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3.5 |
4 |
1.1 |
DCE encapsulation - characteristics of object -orientation |
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3.5 |
4 |
1.2 |
DCE polymorphism - a characteristic of object-orientation |
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3.7 |
4 |
1.0 |
DCE IDL |
In the Fall of 97 survey you generated a list of features/enhancement that you wanted to see in the next DCE version. The same scale was used to rate these features as well:
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3.7 |
4 |
1.2 |
Robust directory with federated naming |
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4.5 |
5 |
0.6 |
Real integration with public-key cryptograpgic infrastructures - JAVA |
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4.4 |
5 |
0.9 |
Directory - consistency with industry direction for LDAP |
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3.8 |
4 |
0.8 |
Optional pre-authentication to enable mobile use |
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3.8 |
5 |
1.1 |
DNS IP renumbering and Ipv6 support |
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3.7 |
4 |
0.7 |
Transactional RPC |
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4.0 |
4 |
1.0 |
Web commerce security integration |
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3.9 |
4 |
0.9 |
Common ticket formats |
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4.0 |
4 |
0.8 |
Cross Cell Authentication forwarding |
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4.0 |
4 |
0.6 |
Improved development tool support |
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3.9 |
4 |
0.9 |
Improved language binding support (native, COBOL, JAVA) |
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4.1 |
5 |
0.9 |
Security with delegation and general adoption of gss api |
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4.3 |
5 |
0.9 |
DCE must work with CORBA |
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2.6 |
1 |
1.3 |
DCE/Novell integration (needs to be upgraded to support Netware 4) |
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3.1 |
3 |
1.1 |
DME print services in DFS complete |
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4.0 |
5 |
1.0 |
DCE firewall support |
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4.4 |
5 |
0.9 |
LDAP support |
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4.1 |
5 |
1.0 |
Pluggable multi crypto capability |
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4.1 |
5 |
1.0 |
Single reference implementation for interoperability and |
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4.6 |
5 |
0.6 |
Interoperability with Windows, Windows NT, Mac, SGI, |
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4.4 |
5 |
0.8 |
Solid CDS |
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3.5 |
3 |
1.0 |
Better performance in regard to Secure LAN , SWAN, and security |
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3.8 |
4 |
0.9 |
Support for objects |
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3.3 |
3 |
1.0 |
Support for more protocols, push technologies, and asynch messaging |
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3.7 |
4 |
1.1 |
Interoperability between DCE Snare Tellnet Client and
Intellisoft Tellnet Client, Das Comm, Gradient, X terminal suite |
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Better integration with the MS Window NT Platform (esp. reg. NT5) |
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DCE native method of "authorizing local sessions |
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Better control over the CDS & security namespace layout upon configuration |
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dcecp fullly functional so that rgy_edit et.al. Can be phased out |
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Implement a "disconnected DFS" client a la CODA, but with normal DFS servers |
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Port DFS client code to Linux, NetBsd, FreeBDS, et/al/ |
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Port DFS client code to Macintosh |
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A platform-independent config script based solely on dcecp |
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Management tools |
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Java/Dev/CORBA. Web integration |
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Adaptive/dynamic CDS Reconfigurability |
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Improved admin support |
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Mechanism for bug fixes in common code |
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Apt. for secure hash algorithms (MD5, SHA-1) |
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Router Support for Kerberos and public key authentication |
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IT DialTone interoperation |
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IT DialTone Migration |
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Problem resolution and bug fixes into references source |
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Asynch. models of IPC messages, events, queues |
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Better integration of DCE security |
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Workflow management system |
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Re-implement DFS files set namespace as a hierarchical tree |