DCE Survey Results

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DCE Survey Results

• Alexandra Martin
• Training Communications Specialist
• a.martin_at_opengroup.org

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Overview

• 24 Surveys received - 7 via email - 17 in
  meeting
• 36 Current features rated
• 25 Additional desired features/enhancement
  identified and rated

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Summary of Results

• Top 10 (mean, St. dev.)
• Lowest 10 (mean, st. dev.)
• handout with totals

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Top 10 Most Useful Features

• Remote Procedure call combined with security
• Choice among platforms
• RPC Security authentication
• Security Service
• Single log-in
• Security - authoritization
• Kerberos based authentication
• Security - public key

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Not at All Not Very Useful Features

• Tcl based aministrative tools
• International character interoperability
• Netware Gateway
• Time Service
• C IDL Compiler
• Common ticket formats

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Added Features/Enhancements

• Better integration with the MS Window NT Platform
  (esp. reg. NT5)
• DCE native method of authorizing local
  sessions- I.e. login, ftp, pop, imap etc.
• Better control over the CDS security namespace
  layout upon configuration - implement admin.
  Subdomains more easily (5)
• dcecp fullly functional so that rgy_edit et.al.
  Can be phased out (4)

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Added Features/Enhancements (contd)

• Implement a disconnected DFS client a la CODA,
  but with normal DFS servers (4)
• Port DFS client code to Linux, NetBsd, FreeBDS,
  et/al/ (5)
• Port DFS client code to Macintosh (5)
• A platform-independent config script based
  solely on dcecp (4)
• Re-implement DFS files set namespace as a
  hierarchical tree (4)

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Handouts will include

• These slide summaries of results
• List of all features starting with the highest
  rating
• Mean Average
• Mode Average
• Standard Deviation