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From: mrose@CHEETAH.NYSER.NET (Marshall Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
Subject: Re: commercial ISODE and transport service bridges...
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Date: 23 Nov 89 18:24:18 GMT
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	My first question is has anyone out there taken the ISODE
	concept and produced a commercial implementation (or
	commercially available port)?  I seem to recall just recently
	reading about such a thing in the trade rags but I can't find
	the article again (which made me think about cleaning my desk before I
	gave it up as an impossible task).

There are a few unnamed companies which are planning to use the ISODE as
a part of their OSI product offerings.  It would be presumptious of me
to name them.

	My second question concerns the Transport Service bridge.  In
	the docs it says that the TSB is not included in the "openly
	available ISODE distribution", however in Marshall Rose's new
	book he states that Julian Onion's TS-bridge was donated to
	ISODE sometime in '89.  We're very interested in the potential
	for a TS bridge providing TCP/OSI interoperability.  Is the TSB
	in the ISODE-5.0?  Has anyone worked with it and what are the
	results, if any? Any info on the TSB would be appreciated.

ISODE 5.0 was distributed before *The Open Book* was published by
Prentice-hall.  In turn, *The Open Book* was published before the
upcoming 6.0 distribution.

The current ISODE beta has a TSB, and it will be included in the 6.0
distribution.  In fact, the documentation set for 6.0 will include a
wonderful new chapter called "The Transport Switch" which describes in
detail how to configure your environment to use the TSB, etc., with a
minimum of transparency.  This more or less corresponds to Sections 5.5
(Application Use of End-to-End Services) and 5.6 (Interworking
Revisited) of *The Open Book*.  

	Finally, I have been trying to get ISODE to work on our Sun
	(4/260, OS4.0.3 running Sunlink 6.0 OSI) and have had limited success.

ISODE 5.0 predates SunLink OSI 6.0.  However, ISODE 6.0 will work with
SunLink OSI 6.0.  A couple of SunLink OSI experts were kind enough to
test it out and provide patches.

/mtr