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From: little@SAIC.COM (Mike Little)
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Subject: Re:  DoD --> CMOT and SNMP
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Date: 11 Sep 89 15:12:43 GMT
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>> Not quite true -- one could use SNMP to manage an OSI network.

>Excuse me, I'm confused.  I thought that OSI was a model which described
>the procedures (steps) to establish a connection and transfer data between
>two nodes on a network regardless of the protocol suite employed.  The ISO
>IP/TPn and Internet TCP/IP protocol suites can be described by the model
>as can networks based on Digital's DCA protocol suite, IBM's BSC protocol,
>and the ISO 1745 protocol.

OSI is an architectural model (one of many and the one with the most
name recognition).  I believe the confusion arises here from what I
find to be common misspeak - refering to OSI when one actually should
refer to ISO.  Particularly, the phrase "an OSI network" where the 
intention is "a network based upon the ISO protocol suite".  This may not
be exactly what Phillip intended (Phillip please interject if this is 
nowhere close), but looks like where the confusion is arising from.

					-Mike