[HECnet] Updating Map Locations

[Paul Koning]

> On Dec 9, 2021, at 2:39 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's a nice hack.
> 
> Were we to have source to the various NICE executables, I would say that the thing to do would be to a "location" field in addition to the identification field.

That's easy enough in principle, the protocol is readily extensible.  The difficulty of course would be to extend the NCP and NML implementations to deliver that new attribute.

> Another thing would be a DECnet DNS, which is something that has been on my list to do (enhance Chives)

DECdns is a standard Phase V feature.  I have never used it but I remember participating in the design of that specification; it's got a bunch of neat capabilities.  Come to think of it the DEC time service would also be interesting to have.

	paul