Andrew Leary wrote to Kees van Eeten about MakeNL v3.4.1 Release:

 KvE>>  With almost three months of intensive testing by all involved, I
 KvE>> think we can expect the first nodelist of 2014 to be distributed
 KvE>> with the allowunpub enabled, or did I miss something?

 AL> That decision is up to the ZCs.  I'm all for it.  Since it is a
 AL> top-down option, it needs to be enabled at the ZC level first, then
 AL> at the RC level, and so on.  There shouldn't be any problem if a
 AL> particular Net or Region doesn't enable it, because the old method of
 AL> Pvt,-Unpublished- is still acceptable, even after AllowUnpub is
 AL> enabled.  The only problem will be if a lower level coordinator
 AL> enables it before someone above them.  In that case, a segment
 AL> listing -Unpublished- nodes without the Pvt, keyword would be flagged
 AL> as an error or rejected entirely.

This is where my RC's system breaks down. He tried using MNL for OS/2 and
it didn't work. I enabled the allow unpublished and his MNL/OS/2 couldn't
handle it. He's still reluctant to use it. One other complaint he has is
that MNL won't submit a netseg with no changes in it. NLMake, which is
what he uses, won't except a file that has a date over 8 weeks old. So an
NC must make a change to the netseg, forcing one to enter a number in an
IP only node to make that change, until he gets a working OS/2 version.


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