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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe - USA -} Europe...
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Date: 11 Sep 90 09:45:25 GMT
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In article <6190@castle.ed.ac.uk> tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
>	This raises the rather interesting question of who exactly the
>JNT answer to. Every time I hear a discussion on this subject the cries
>from the punters on the ground who actually use and run computers day-in
>day-out is for TCP/IP. The JNT says Coloured Books and OSI. Seems to be
>a bad case of the tail wagging the dog. Still can't complain. Coloured
>books have been good to me :-)

The JNT don't answer to the users - they're civil servants.

I don't really give a toss what we run, so long as it works reliably
and lets us interconnect.  OSI may do this eventually.  Maybe not.
But it's a hell of a lot better than DECNet.

Ciao,
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