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From: larry@rnms1.uucp (0000-Larry Swift(0000))
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP versus OSI
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Date: 22 Mar 89 18:14:43 GMT
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In article <2145@cpoint.UUCP> martillo@cpoint.UUCP (Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo) writes:
>be interested, and I would not mind some comments.

OK, here goes.

Some of your remarks seem to be deliberately baiting entire groups of
people, to wit:

>            costs.  At the same time, with no obvious architecture, with
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>            theoretical  or   idealized  networks   and  while  actively
>            ignoring the  work being  done in the ARPA Internet context,
>            the ISO  OSI  standards  committees  were  developing  basic
>            remote terminal  and file  transfer protocols.   The ISO OSI

I won't argue the merit of this statement one way or the other.  But
the fact is that there have been lots and lots of people working on
architectural issues in the ISO context since the very early days who
could easily get offended by the off-hand nature of this remark.

>           |Since June,  1988 William Stallings and I have been engaging|
>           |in a  guerilla debate  in the  reader's forum  and  the  EOT|
                   ^^^^^^^^
I would offer that a lot of people who might otherwise be interested in
this subject will not bother with this debate because of the "guerilla"
nature of your discourse.  I'm certainly less interested than I otherwise
would be.

>           |hominem attacks.  I apologize for those comments in my forum|
>           |letter which  might be  construed  as  personal  attacks  on|
>           |William Stallings.           				|

'nuff said.

>            the debate.   I  have yet  to meet a communications engineer
>            who had  a sense  of what  a process might be. Having taught

In other words, you are the only exception?  Give us a break, here.

Maybe I'll read the rest later.


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