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Subject: Re: OSI-model software
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In article <526@alliant.UUCP> steckel@alliant.UUCP (Geoff Steckel) writes:
>Anyone contemplating using OSI protocols should read Padlipsky's comments
>in the tcp-ip mailgroup (comp.dcom.tcp-ip I think).  He exposes far better
>than I can the fundamental flaws in network protocols prescribed by PTTs
>(national postal/telegraph/telephone monopolies) or other monolithic entities.
>He has also published a book on the subject - suitable for making implementors
>cry and standards committee members break out in flames.  (Sorry, I can't
>remember the title but I could find out if enough interest)
>...
>Read Padlipsky and weep (or break into hysterical laughter!).
>	geoff steckel (steckel@alliant.uucp, gwes@wjh12.uucp)

Padilipsky's book is called "The Elements of Networking Style", and
is published by Prentice-Hall.