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From: barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG
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Subject: Re: "The Open Book" by Rose - your opinions sought
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Date: 5 Sep 90 14:14:12 GMT
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To my kmnowledge, no book comparable to Comer exists for OSI and
I doubt that one will be created any time soon.  Open Book is about the
best available and you might as well buy it (everyone else does),
but it isn't as concrete as Comer because in the OSI world, these
things are still being figured out.  I think that is a limitation
we just have to accept for a while yet.  And in part, it will probably
exist forever, because OSI is rather broader than TCP/IP and thus
won't be able to be covered to the same depth in anything like the
same number of pages, once we have figured out the right details.
This is wild speculation, but I'd estimate a treatment of ALL of the OSI
protocols to comparable depth would run about 5000 pages.

/Bill Barns