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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28446)	10/5/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) of 42771

Well actually Scott I am a bit surprised that you can see only limited use of a Directory Service like NDS within @HOME to help them set and enforce usage policies. If I were a Novell Marketing / Development Officer I would envision an ISP like @HOME developing a Service completely built on Directory Services as the underpinning to their existence. The ISP infrastructure would be NDS enabled (i.e. the Web Servers, Firewalls, switch ports, maybe even the cable modems in the future, etc.). The users of the service would then be provided the client software to login and authenticate into the @HOME service prior to any @HOME services being offered. From that point on, @HOME can maintain and restrict access to any of their ISP services at a logical layer - not a physical layer (their big problem now)! That means that NAT gateways would prove useless to those of us users that are riding multiple PCs on the same pipe. It would allow @HOME to provide enhanced services to individual users - such as billable application renting, billable enhanced bandwidth (if cable modem and head-end infrastructure could be NDS enhanced), @HOME customer portability (i.e. access to my Web Pages from outside the @HOME netowrk), hacker control from troublesome @HOME users attacking other @HOME users (via loggin/aditing), mobile dial-up service provisioning for cable-modem users on the road, should I go on? They could turn their ISP into a BSP (Business Services Provider) for the Business users on the @WORK network. Ohh well, I gotta slow down the brain here. Time for yet another meeting. But you get my point Scott. The industry's imagination is a big part of the limiatation of NDS. Toy

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