Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?

[Charles Karney]

Johan Danielsson writes:
 > 
 > Charles Karney <karney at pppl.gov> writes:
 > 
 > >   This licensing option is offered for customers to use non-IBM
 > >   offered AFS or DFS client software to allow Registered Entity
 > >   access to the IBM offered AFS or DFS software.
 > 
 > I think this means that they are charging per user in the
 > pt-database. They don't charge for `unregistered entities' (i.e
 > unauthenticated access).

This is a reasonable interpretation and one which is easy to understand and
measure.  However the definition in the IBM announcement is the more
opaque:

  "A Registered Entity is any named person or persons or automated devices
  that are entitled to establish one or more connections to any authorized
  license of an AFS client or server in a your environment, either directly
  or through a multiplexing program or application server (for example, Web
  Server, gateway, time sharing server, or NFS translator), that results in
  the execution of any AFS function."

Perhaps "named" in the first line is the crucial word which excludes
unauthenticated access?  Or maybe it's the word "entitled" or the word
"authorized"?

I know that I haven't been able to get a definitive explanation from the
folks at IBM.

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