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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: A proposal on a new newsgroup "comp.protocols.migrate.to.iso"
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Date: 7 Jun 90 16:34:37 GMT
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In article <4431@infmx.UUCP>, kwang@infmx.UUCP (Kwang Sung) writes:
> If you are saying same words to Korea or Japan Government/Industries/
> Universities, they are going to laugh.

They haven't so far.  TCP/IP is used by many Japanese universities and
industry leaders for the reason that it works and is available right now.
They may be doing research into OSI and MAP/TOP, but they still use TCP/IP
to get their work done.

> I was invited from several institutions and Korea 
> Government Organizations which are dealing with the highest technologies in 
> the world. Not many people wanted to talk about TCP/IP. They were already
> migrated to OSI world.

If they have installed and operational OSI networks, with similar scale,
performance, and quality of service as U.S. and European TCP/IP networks,
then it's time I scheduled a trip to Korea to see them.

I wonder how they managed it while the ISO is still arguing with itself...

> It's slow sometimes, but the whole world is rapidly moving into one OSI
> world.

It doesn't look that way from what I've seen.  My company is a TCP/IP vendor.
The fastest growing part of our market is overseas--institutions all over
the world are installing and expanding TCP/IP networks, sometimes replacing
attempts to use OSI.

OSI has some very important advantages over TCP/IP, but it is still quite
immature technology, and I think that it's a little early to plan
large-scale migration from TCP/IP.  For discussion, though, you can always
use 'comp.protocols.iso', which can probably handle the volume for a
while...

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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"If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure."  -- Dan Quayle