On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 11:40, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
When VTAM/SNA went to Multi Systems Networking Facility (MSNF) in the > 1980s, shops suddenly needed to take the whole world into account when > exposing heretofore 'private' node names. Most shops had a SYSA, which > would not do when everyone began interconnecting. > > IBM's recommendation at the time was to prefix outward-facing node names > with the SHARE installation code, such as SCE. Shops following that > convention would unlikely collide with another installation. > In the mid 1990s, when SNA interconnection between enterprises was at its peak, IBM had an SNA network name registry. (For all I know they may still have it.) Names were of the form <two letter ISO country code><three character customer code>, so e.g. IBM itself was USIBM (and CAIBM or whatever you were connecting to). I wonder if USCAD was ever registered... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
