Isn't the A Architecture? And the S Synchronous :) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: VTAM security issue > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:03:33 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > wrote: > > >On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:57:15 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >> > >>possibly SNA organization viewed it as competition (even tho SNA had > >>nothing to do with networking). > >> > >Now I'm confused. What does the initialism "SNA" stand > >for? > > > >Or, while this list is focused on initialism pedantry, > >is it possible that there's another "SNA" than the one > >I found at the top of a Google search? > >... > > Well, the N is "Network", not "Networking", but I don't think that > clarifies anything. Lynn apparently has some very specific defibition > of "Networking" in mind. His comment may be accurate (His comments > usually are.) but I'm not sure what that comment really was. > > SNA does not have a universal addressing scheme and IP does. > Perhaps that was the point. But SNI provided that in sort of the > same way that NATing allows interconnection of 2 IP networks that > use private IP addresses. > > SNA does not provide a universal name space for resources, but > neither does IP. The Domain Name space used by IP hosts is > not provided by, or dependent on IP. > > Pat O'Keefe > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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