[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38"

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <SgzDz.577571$uE7.160734 at fx14.ams1>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
>> 
>> Yes DECnet is very obsolete for VMS. I'm sorry, I've forgotten this. 
>> What is the plain IP replacement for something simple as FAL please?

>   DEC submitted a RFC for a FAL-like capability.  It didn't get adopted.
>   ISO/OSI also submitted an RFC for thier equivalent to FAL as
>   an IP protocol.  It dwasn't adopted, either.

If anyone has a pointer to either of these proposals, I'd be interesting
in looking through them.