Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umich!itivax!mm
From: mm@itivax.UUCP (Michael McFarland)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: OSI broadcast question
Summary: Information on the ISO activities concerning broadcast messages
	 in the 7 layer context.
Keywords: OSI, networking, LAN
Message-ID: <253@itivax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 16:26:24 GMT
References: <82@cybaswan.UUCP>
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor
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In article <82@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-ih@cybaswan.UUCP (i.izikowitz) writes:
> 
> Is there any way of implementing the broadcast of messages
> in a local area network which conforms to the OSI standard
> reference model?
> 
> Would this be possible with a modification of the 7-layer model to
> deal with messages of this type?
> 
> Note: By "broadcast" I mean completely unacknowledged!
> 
>  

Not currently. (ISO lets you go connectionless all the way up to 
Presentation.) But the question is being addressed by the ANSI T5.1
committee. (As an addendum to the 7498? DP 9545?).
If you want more info about the committee, send me a message.

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