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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: Re: Standards for commercial packet radio
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 18:54:32 EDT
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> I have also heard that DOD (or ARPANET) has made a commitment to
> different standards groups (NBS, FTSC, etc.) that it is going to 
> migrate toward ISO's layer 4 and away from TCP/IP.  The  FTSC and
> NBS came out with a dual release of the ISO's layer 4.  I wonder
> if this is actually going to happen.

This was the subject of the famous "NRC Report". As I interpret the official
DoD response to the report, they said that they've already got a set of
working protocols that do everything they want. Until ISO becomes a real set
of standards implemented in real products instead of so much paper, there's
no hurry to consider any form of conversion.

> While on the subject, I have a question.  Has anyone ever run VI on
> Unix from a terminal with an X.25 packet switching network between the
> terminal and host?  How did it work?  Just curious.

We can do this on our CSNET/X.25 interface. It works, but slowly, as you'd
expect.

Phil