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From: karn@faline.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: OSI-model software
Message-ID: <644@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 01:03:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 01:03:03 1987
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Summary: Bingo!

> 	It occurs to me that the reason for including the concepts "Session" 
> and "Connection" in the ISO/OSI model is precisely because PPTs are accustomed
> to charging by the (name your time unit) for a connection between two points.
> (i.e. DM0,45/minute from Frankfurt-am Main to Bad Nirgensplatz, Bavaria)
> 	It is easier to machine titanium than to try to change bureaucratic
> ideas (sic) of "the way the world really is -- and should be"!	

I often say that the reason the PTTs are so anti-datagram is because
without connections, there's no way to charge for connect time.  I used to
think I was joking; not any more.

Phil