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From: larry@anasazi.UUCP (Larry Rodis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sources for OSI standards and proposals
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 13:37:57 EDT
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> While you're at it, you should give equal time to the loyal opposition.
> 
> Michael Padlipsky has recently published a book through Prentice Hall
> entitled "The Elements of Networking Style" (ISBN 0-13-268111-0.) It is a
> compendium of critiques on the many questionable aspects of the ISO/OSI and
> CCITT approaches to networking.  It presents a pretty strong case in favor
> of the ARPA protocols (including TCP/IP), by pointing out that they have
> already done for almost 10 years everything that ISO is just now getting
> around to re-inventing.
> 
> Well worth reading if you'd like to avoid buying a picture of a pig in a
> poke (to quote one of the author's favorite expressions.)
> 
> Phil Karn

There is one problem with your suggestion to use ARPA protocols over ISO/OSI
and that ISO/OSI is an international standard (or will be).  That is the 
biggest reason to use it.  I realize that it is not the best (I'm working on
X.25 and the Transport Layer) but it is being molded into a standard.
There is much to be said to writing systems around a standard that is
being accepted worldwide.  The most logical example is unix, it may not be
the best OS in the world but it will run on more machines than anything else
and therefore many companies are putting unix on there systems.  
Considering how much  software maintenance costs portability is the name 
of the game, and the ISO OSI protocals will help to achieve network
portability.
-- 
Larry Rodis

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