1996-02-26 - RE: REM_ote

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From: “Robichaux, Paul E” <perobich@ingr.com>
To: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-26 13:49:03 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 05:49:03 PST

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From: "Robichaux, Paul E" <perobich@ingr.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 05:49:03 PST
To: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
Subject: RE: REM_ote
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Alex Strasheim said:
>(A useful feature for Netscape might be a facility that checks
>periodically to see if a security patch is in order, and displays a
>warning if it is.)

The Simple Internet Version Control (SIVC, pronounced "civic") protocol does 
just this. See http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/sivc/spec.html for details. 
SIVC is popular on the Mac, but I don't know if it's been put up as an RFC.

-Paul







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