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To: David O'Berry who wrote (30034)	1/23/2000 11:43:00 PM
From: jwright	Respond to of 42771

I'm not talking about server names I'm talking about tree names. IPX uses SAP for tree names, and IP uses SLP. If I'm company IPLORDS with my company tree also named IPLORDS how is your company MINDSPRING with tree named MINDSPRING going to do B2B with me. You would have no way to resolve IPLORDS in order to authenticate to my tree for access. How are you going to do that unless I provide you an IP address. Now lets say there are 1,000,000 companies that I want to do B2B with. Am I going to tell all of these companies my address. This is what DNS is for in providing a global naming scheme. Why re-invent the wheel when DNS is already available. What happens if another company also has a tree named IPLORDS and wants to do B2B with me? The tree name itself is not unique. NDS is fairly useless until you authenticate to the tree. Tree authentication is completely different than authenticating/licensing to a server for file/print access. This is why the announcement that Toy saw is so important. For those of you not familiar with NDS terminology substitute domain where I have said tree. The problem with tree names as they currently exist is that there is no naming hierarchy as there is with DNS names. Jimmy