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TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview - IBM Redbooks

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DCE is the result of work from the Open Systems Foundation, or OSF (now<br />

called The Open Group), a collaboration of many hardware vendors, software<br />

vendors, clients, <strong>and</strong> consulting firms. The OSF began in 1988 with the purpose<br />

of supporting the research, development, <strong>and</strong> delivery of vendor-neutral<br />

technology <strong>and</strong> industry st<strong>and</strong>ards. One such st<strong>and</strong>ard developed was DCE.<br />

DCE Version 1.0 was released in January 1992.<br />

As shown in Figure 13-6, DCE includes the following major services:<br />

► Directory service<br />

► Security service<br />

► Distributed Time Service<br />

► Distributed File Service<br />

► Threads<br />

► Remote Procedure Call<br />

Figure 13-6 DCE architectural components<br />

All these services have application program interfaces (APIs) that allow the<br />

programmer to use these functions. We describe these services in more detail in<br />

the following sections.<br />

The DCE architecture does not specifically require that <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> must be used for<br />

transport services, but few other protocols today meet the open <strong>and</strong> multivendor<br />

requirements of the DCE design goals. In practice, the vast majority, if not all,<br />

implementations of DCE are based on <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> networks.<br />

Chapter 13. Remote execution <strong>and</strong> distributed computing 497

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