Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!DAYTON!DESCHAPEL From: DESCHAPEL@DAYTON.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: RE: OSI "Needs and Wants" Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 18:16:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 5 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: BITNET%"novell@suvm" All of your possibilities will probably eventually be needed/wanted, however in my humble opinion, the X.400 email, and the directory services are the most urgent. We here are at the starting end of more complex networking, and will be using TCP/IP for a while -- my general sense is that it will be quite a while before we migrate to OSI --