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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.lan,net.dcom,net.decus
Subject: Re: What is "ISO"?
Message-ID: <3041@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 18:37:19 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3041
Posted: Thu Apr 17 18:37:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 13:07:25 EST
References: <424@gould9.UUCP> <319@ptsfd.UUCP> <76@petrus.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Advanced Systems Planning
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Keywords: TCP IP ISO OSI network transport
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Summary: request for reasons why TCP/IP are better than ISO equivalents

In article <76@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:

> 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.
> ...

Please post some additional information supporting this statement.  I
would be the first to agree that the ISO standards are not perfect, but I
am curious as to why you believe TCP/IP is better.
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Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl

[ The article above is not an official statement from any organization
  in the known universe. ]