[xad] Rough time estimates

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

> Big tasks
> =========
> 
> - Integration of GSS-API with DCE RPC runtime [100h]
> - NTLMSSP GSS-API mechanism implementation [100h]
> - Migration of TNG code to FreeDCE [200h]

more like 600.

i listed them all for you, cc'd to various lists
because the total time is _way_ over the top.

i mean, i usually do about 4 actual hours development
per day, that means 6 months development if i
did this all myself, and i'm going to need to do
a lot of it because noone else gets NTLMSSP or
the TNG architecture / integration issues.

oh, and _until_ a lot of those 600 hours are done,
_nothing_ else can proceed.  this is critical path
work.

without the client-side netlogon, lsa and
samr APIs on which domain_client_validate
must be written on to of, ntlmssp cannot
perform authentication.

without the ntlmssp integrated into freedce, nothing
works.

without the netlogond, samrd and lsarpcd (you can
use TNG's current services, here), the ntlmssp
code - even once it's developed! - doesn't have
anything to operate off of so is useless.

without the NamedPipe emulation layer, you can't
interoperate with Windows NT or Samba or Samba TNG
in an NT domain environment.

it's all very tightly knitted together.

and without _all_ of that working, you cannot
then proceed to do DRS, Exchange, SQL or DCOM.

except with no security, and with no means to
test / interoperate against NT in order to
find out of your freedce services actually
work against NT, because they kick you
out because you can't Authenticate or
be Authenticated.

lkcl