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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: X-WINDOWS & OSI
Summary: Can OSI just be grafted on at the end?
Message-ID: <33332@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 89 17:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Organization: Boston U. Information Technology
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	If X was designed without reference to the OSI model,
including ASN.1, all the Application Layer Service Elements,
Presentation, and Session, what is the use of trying to graft the
model on after the fact?
	Is X being rewritten to comply with OSI or to interoperate
with some other OSI services, like ASN.1?  Why?

	It just sounds awfully peculiar to me.  I thought the model
was for designing new systems, not explaining old ones.  Never occured
to me that that was what the OSI model was for, universal explanation
and interpretation.  :-)

	Kent England, Boston University