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From: fwb@siemens.UUCP (Frederic W. Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: OSI-model software
Message-ID: <166@siemens.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 10:55:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 10 10:55:38 1987
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[I removed comp.protocols.iso because postnews could not find the group!]

In article <1726@ames.UUCP> lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
>In article <2923@pyramid.UUCP> sas@pyramid.UUCP (Scott Schoenthal) writes:
>
>(Paraphrase: "ISO offers the following:")
>
>>	(3)	A suite of protocols not developed by the "bomb-crazed"
>>		American military. ...
>
>This "argument" I thought was a joke, at first.  "You have got to be kidding."
>The sad truth is that I have actually heard ISO proponents use it.  ...

I have heard it used (but without the "bomb-crazed" phrase) by TCP/IP
opponents who would use ANYTHING, no matter how terrible, as long as it is
not TCP/IP.  I don't understand this attitude.  TCP/IP is a useful suite of
protocols readily available for many machines from many vendors with good
support.

I hope that the ISO suite of protocols matures soon so that I can buy the
functionality I need without fighting political wars.

Fred
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