Re: GNOME Networking Idea

[Matt Wimer <matt dev cgibuilder com>]

> mw> A number of people over the months have asked about network
> mw> transperancy in GNOME. After all, GNOME stands for GNU Network
> mw> Object Model, so I will tell you where the Network comes in. Network
> mw> Transparency means users and application programmers can access
> mw> files and resources from a remote machine in the same way they
> mw> might access local files. I will focus on the application side of
> mw> Network Transparency.
>
> [description of funtionality deleted]
>
> Isn't this the functionality the CosNamingServer is supposed to do
> (and already does)?

I haven't seen this CosNamingServer, but i doubt it uses standard
internet protocols to transfer files and data around.


I propose a simple layer of abstraction around the many internet protocols.

Because it use CORBA, extentions specific to each protocol could be added
easy enough.


--matt wimer