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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: What is "ISO"?
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It is also worth mentioning that I don't think anyone has yet found a
criterion by which "ISO" is somehow "better" than the ARPA protocol suite,
other than its well-trumpeted status as a "future world standard". In fact,
in many ways the ISO network and transport protocols are demonstrably worse
than IP/TCP.

Given that two hundred years ago a system of weights and measures was
invented in Europe that (unlike ISO protocols) is simpler, easier to use and
without question far superior to what was in common use in the US, and given
that two hundred years later we're still not using it, I'm not holding my
breath for an overnight conversion to ISO.

Phil Karn