From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 14:07:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED7C484.7060706@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets) References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> <3ED4EB4E.6050108@cogeco.ca> <3ED63B23.5040308@cogeco.ca> <3ed7278b@news.wineasy.se> <3ED79241.2060908@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:52:20 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1054327939 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 30 May 2003 16:52:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:52:19 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38156 Date: 2003-05-30T16:52:20-04:00 List-Id: Wesley Groleau wrote: >> BTW, you _will_ want Naming services support. Without them, you'll >> not connect to anything, except explicity by IP number. ;-) > > I agree that TCP/IP without DNS is _severely_ crippled. > Nevertheless, I'd prefer they be in separate packages > with minimal coupling between them. I was very careful to not suggest a package hierarchy (no, not even a name ;-) This needs to be part of an overall "solution" to be proposed. As you suggested, it may best be "decoupled" according to best practices. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg