[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lu9kdk$lo8$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> 
> This actually leads me to pet networking peeve #2 (right after trying to 
> fit TCP/IP into the OSI 7 layer model). 

One minor nit, here.  

"The Transmission Control Protocol was first formally specified in December
of 1974 by Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine." 
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/Early_Days_Of_TCP/index.shtml) 

"In 1983, these two documents were merged together to form a standard
called The Basic Reference Model for Open Systems Interconnection.
That's a mouthful, so the standard is usually referred to as the Open
Systems Interconnection Reference Model, the OSI Reference Model, or
even just the OSI Model. It was published in 1984 by both the ISO,
as standard ISO 7498,"
(http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_HistoryoftheOSIReferenceModel.htm)

Seems to me that rather than trying to "fit TCP/IP into the OSI 7 layer
model" ISO and CCITT were much more interested in not following the
existing model that had already been in use for more than a decade. 
Given the politics of the time I am sure most people know why.

bill

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