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From: djo@ptsfd.UUCP (Dan'l Oakes)
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Subject: Re: What is "ISO"?
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Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 15:50:25 EST
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In article <102@ico.UUCP> dougm@ico.UUCP (Doug McCallum) writes:
>Not true!  Standard protocols exist for layers 4 and 5.  Layers 6 and
>7 have gone to DIS form (Draft International Standard) and are
>supposed to go for 6 month ballot in June.  There should be
>International Standards at all 7 layers by the end of 1986.  Standards
>DIS level are also stable enough for an initial implementation.
>Transport has been a standard for quite some time.  Session a little
>less, but it has been about a year.

I beg to differ.  It isn't officially adopted as a standard until the
big books come out every four years (1988 books due out around 1989).

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes


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