Subject: SNA Service Transaction Names -Reply

From: Norman Chin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 13:27:14 -0700

Tom,

  I think the proposal from John is a good attempt but...there
are some problems with his plan.  For one thing, we need to
change the IBM standard of handling the NON service TP
names.  For NON service TP names, we are compatible with
IBM and Microsoft's WOSA standard CPIC DLL.  Do we
want to go away from that just to add support for Service
TP?

  Additionaly, how are we going to handle the incoming
attaches and setting the environment variable APPCTPN for
the TP that doesn't use the Specify_Local_TP_Name?  A
Service TP name that starts with '00' would give us trouble
when setting the environment variable.  How do we get
around that?  Provide another scheme?

  I think we should send our implementation since it takes
care of all cases and still be compatible with IBM and
Microsoft.

Norm