[HECnet] Effects of Rogue Duplicate HECnet Node?

[Robert Armstrong]

>The area.node notation, and the Phase 3 numeric address notation, were
> intended to be standard, not just limited to NCP.  And indeed DECnet/E
> (in RSTS) does both:

  FWIW, VMS accepts all three notations too - e.g. ZITI::, 2.16:: and
2064::.  It also accepts the node"name password":: notation as well.
Actually I thought this was a standard thing in all "modern" (i.e. Phase IV)
implementations.  Are there systems that don't?

  And the VMS parser doesn't limit the node name to 6 characters, so you can
say "63.1023::" (although HECnet has no such node).

Bob