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From: skidmore@europa.asd.contel.com (William E. Skidmore)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: DNSIX and GOSIP Coexistence
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.182624.1066@europa.asd.contel.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 23:26:24 GMT
Reply-To: skidmore@europa.asd.contel.com (William E. Skidmore)
Organization: Contel Federal Systems
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I am trying to piece together (at the system level) the start of a GOSIP-based
network.  In addition to the GOSIP requirement, there is an additional requirement
that some users (and their associated LANS) be covered by DNSIX (the USDIA
mandated protocol for use in intelligence communities).  Since the requirement
for GOSIP stipulates that all end users will use the full seven layers of
GOSIP, and the intermediate processors use only the lower three layers, and
DNSIX is TCP/IP-based, we recognize that the two cannot coexist within the
current standards atmosphere.  Information derived from Mitre Corp (the people
who wrote the DNSIX protocol spec for DIA) indicates that they intend to
discuss the issue of GOSIP/DNSIX coexistence sometime during CY91.  My network
must start to be implemented during 4QTR CY91.

Does anyone have any info on prototype implementations of a network that
uses both DNSIX and GOSIP?

--
Bill Skidmore