Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!PADLIPSKY From: PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: IP in the UK (was Re: Fingering the English) Message-ID: <12691387733.21.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU> Date: 6 Jun 91 19:15:00 GMT References: <5280@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 Graham Thomas-- I'd be so fascinated to see an explanation of your depiction of TCP/IP as "SEMI-open" [emphasis added] that I'd even forego the pleasure of debating whether the originators of the "Coloured Books" SHOULD have realized [or, more locally appropriate, realised] that OSI would be a very long time in coming, in exchange. cheers, map -------