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From: levinson@accur8.UUCP (Edward Levinson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: WIN/OSI phases
Keywords: osi,tcp-ip,transition
Message-ID: <290@accur8.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 90 21:07:54 GMT
Organization: Accurate Information Systems, S. Planfield, NJ
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In UNIX Today!, June 11, 1990, on pg. 38 an article entitled "Net Tools
Ease Move From TCP/IP To OSI" appears about The Wollongong Group's OSI
product, WIN/OSI.

The following statement sounded strange to me.  Can anyone shed some
light on what Wollongong really means.

	"Wollongong recommends a four-part strategy for migration to
	OSI, starting with modifications to lower-level TCP/IP
	communications.  Phase 2 allows OSI applications to run over
	TCP/IP lower-level protocols.  Phase 3 introduces the TSB
	gateway from TCP/IP to OSI.  And, finally, full OSI compliance
	occurs in Phase 4."

Except for Phase 1 this sounds like ISODE.  Is this really a
productized ISODE?  What does the first phase mean?  (Could it be
adding RFC1066 code?)  Earlier in the story a "mixed stack" is
referred to, again implying ISODE.

The next paragraph is stranger.  It says that there is a SNMP agent
that "allows OSI devices to access Internet SNMP stations."  This
suggests to me that TWG has an SNMP agent on top of an OSI stack.  At
$200 sounds too good to be true.   Can anyone shed some light here?

Mostly it sounds like a garbled press release.  Garbled when it got
close to the real technical issues.

Thanks.../Ed

Edward Levinson                         Disclaimer:  The opinions expressed
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