In "Automating TCP/IP in NT" (November 1994), Peter Wayner says that if he uses Microsoft's WINS (Windows-Internet Naming Service) to provide name-to-address-translation service on a Microsoft-based TCP/IP network, no one outside of that network will be able to get to him by name. I think it's Microsoft's fault for not making WINS work with DNS, the Internet's Domain Name Service; after all, DNS has been around much longer and is an internationally accepted standard. By not working with the widely used standard, WINS users will have cut themselves off from the rest of the world. I'm glad to see that Microsoft is trying to work through the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to resolve the differences. Let's hope the operative tone here is "work with" rather than "dictate to."
Doug Loss
Wilkes-Barr
e, PA
loss@husky.bloomu.edu
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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