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From: kwang@moose.UUCP (Kwang Sung)
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Date: 28 Jun 90 00:06:39 GMT
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Dear Mr. Phillip G. Gross:

	You wrote:

>Let me add my vote to Doug montgomery's suggestion that you consider
>participating in the IETF OSI working groups and mailing lists.

	Actually, I am in your IETF mailing lists now. I wish I can attend
your next meeting at the University of British Columbia.

>As Doug points out, many of the topics in your list are being specifically
>addressed in IETF WGs.  For example, IETF OSI WGs reviewed GOSIP and 
>forwarded comments to NIST.  The IETF is now represented on the GOSIP
>advance requirements group.  

	That's true.

>It seems to me that it would be very useful for you to bring your discussion 
>and proposals for OSI migration into the appropriate IETF WGs, rather than 
>duplication efforts  (or at least leave the discussion in the ISO mailing 
>list, which has a lot of cross participation), 

	I understood. However, IETF-OSI WGs are mostly working within Internet
community. There are a lot of companies such as Informix who does not access
the Internet directly, but wants to migrate to OSI from TCP/IP, SNA, DECNET,etc.
In that sense, IETF-OSI cannot resolve more general migration strategies.
I think USENET is the easiest network we can get. Therefore, I would like to 
create such a newsgroup "comp.protocols.iso.migration" on USENET. Right now, 
only 73 persons were listed for votes. Among them, 25 persons said "NO". 
Obviously, currently there are not much traffic on "comp.protocols.iso". 
However, it IS necessary to create such a newsgroup on USENET for the future, 
since I am confident all of our networking fields are moving towards one OSI 
world.

>In my opinion, this would only further splinter the available resources, and 
>possibly do exactly what none of us want to see right now -- slow down the 
>process.

	In my opinion, this will make OSI world more active and aggressive.

>Thank you,
>Phill Gross
>IETF Chair

	I appreciate your opinion. Thanks.


					Kwang Sung
					Informix Software, Inc.
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