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From: cperry@BERT.MITRE.ORG (Chris Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Does TCP/IP "comform" to ISO/OSI?
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Date: 10 Sep 88 19:02:22 GMT
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Jon,

If I get your drift right, you're saying that X.25/LLC (and 
similar CO networks) aren't sufficient for the B-ISDN of the
future, yes?

What I surmise, particularly from Dave Cheriton's Blazenet writings
and from AT&T/Bellcore's current work on high-speed switching fabrics,
is that we must begin to look at protocol architectures that exploit 
the coming broadband media.  Not just live with multi-megabit
networks, but push them for all they are capable of.  I guess I'm
not sure X.25 is capable of that, nor is a 128-octet LAP.  How we
engineer upper-layer protocols for extraordinarily reliable,
high-volume, low-latency traffic makes for interesting and important
research, seems to me.

Next question is, who's going to pay the bill for building these
behemoths?  (Sorry folks, that's a big word for a big animal.)
And who's going to set an agenda for exploring what we can do with
them?

Regards,

Chris