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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Does TCP/IP "comform" to ISO/OSI?
Summary: X.25 is a strawman
Message-ID: <24642@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 30 Aug 88 16:15:44 GMT
References: <5883@nsc.nsc.com> <12425583151.27.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU>
Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Organization: Boston Univ. Information Tech. Dept.
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In article <12425583151.27.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU> 
>PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) writes:
>I'd be delighted to accept a case which held that the protocol sub-suite
>consisting of TCP-or-UDP-over-IP is a more appropriate realization of
>stated "OSI" "Reference Model" principles than is the protocol sub-suite
>consisting of X.25-and-X.75

Seems to me this argument of "OSI implies X.25 and X.75" is a little
obsolete.  In the US, I don't expect to have to run OSI protocols over
virtual circuit networks, but rather that future OSI-IP internetworks
will be "equivalent" to the Internet, that is, a connectionless,
datagram network.  In fact, I am looking forward to running OSI
applications, like directory service, on top of tcp/ip protocols.

Of course, in Europe (except UK) the situation is different.

	Kent England, Boston University