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From: turner@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Bob Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Boeing and Internet
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.141310.7329@udecc.engr.udayton.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 14:13:10 GMT
References: <9012101742.AA19643@bel.isi.edu>
Reply-To: turner@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Bob Turner)
Organization: Univ. of Dayton, School of Engineering
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In article <9012101742.AA19643@bel.isi.edu> postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>
>We must be doing something wrong.
>
>This was in December 3,1990 Network World, Volume7,Number 49 "The
>Newsweekly of User Networking Strategies":
>
>Article on page 1: "MAP/TOP group charts new course" by Ellen
>Messmer
>(paragraph 12)
>	Bride* said a network manager interconnecting a large
>multivendor TCP/IP installation will discover that vendors
>have implemented TCP/IP differently and interoperability
>is unattainable. "You can"t build a national and international
>network using TCP/IP," Bride said.
>
>	* Laurie Bride, manager of network architecture at
>Boeing Computer Services Co.
>
>
>Joe Wieclawek                   jaw@sesun.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
>Jet Propulsion Laboratory       Mail stop: 602-145
>4800 Oak Grove Drive            Office: (818)354-2419   FTS: 792-2419
>Pasadena CA     91109           
>

	I am somewhat suprised that Laurie Bride would make a rash statement
like that. I obviously had a higher opinon of her than she deserved. It
would seem that she needs to read the Open Book and reassess her statements.



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Bob Turner                    Network Manager, School of Engineering
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