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From: eskovgaa@CUE.BC.CA (Erik Skovgaard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Transparent Distribution - Why no light-weight transport in OSI stack?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:36:00 GMT
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OSI is intended to be used between processes on different systems.
Whatever takes place on a single system is outside the scope of OSI, but
as you point out, this will be taken up in the ODP framework.

Other organizations such as X/Open, IEEE and the API Association have
decided to standardize APIs for internal use on a computer system.  As
it turns out, many of these APIs reflect the Abstract Services of
several ASEs.

                                            ....Erik.

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Erik Skovgaard
PSC (Pacific) Inc
Vancouver, B.C.