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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Looking for TCP, XTP, VMTP Sources
Keywords: TCP, XTP, VMTP
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Date: 27 Jun 91 04:55:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.165446.19820@bmers145.bnr.ca> jasonc@bnr.ca
(Jason Chen) writes:
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| 	I don't know where you can get TCP, XTP, VMTP sources for free.
| Since XTP is owned by Protocol Engine Inc, you can contact them for the
| source.  However, I believe that you have to be TAB member to have source.
+---------------

Small clarification: Only one particular implementation of XTP -- the
"Kernel Reference Model" (XTP/KRM) -- is owned/sold by Protocol Engines.
The XTP protocol itself and its specification are in the public domain.
Anyone at all is free to create their own implementation. [For a free copy
of the XTP spec, send your surface-mail address to "xtp-request@pei.com".]

While it is true that most of the other implementations we've heard of
have also been by XTP TAB members (who get the KRM free as part of their
membership fee), at least one implementation has been done by a non-TAB
member, working only from the spec.


-Rob

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