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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Some alternatives to OSI
Summary: malt != layer?
Message-ID: <17344@cos.com>
Date: 28 Apr 89 15:22:50 GMT
References: <3489@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> <12486384267.18.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU>
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Suddenly, I have insight... :-)

In article <12486384267.18.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU>, PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) writes:
> 
>    And for your own interest and amusement, though I wouldn't think of
> bothering the author with it, we might observe that there is a deep
> sense in which the OSI protocols share in the advantage of not being
> invented by ISO.  (They were, of course, reinvented--and badly, as
> witness the fact that the ARPA protocols do indeed offer some "session"
> and a lot of "presentation" FUNCTIONALITY, they just don't overcomplicate
> life by instantiating them in rigidly hierarchical layers. 


>    Oh, by the bye, is the University of the Outer Hebrides convenient to
> Islay?  If so, I'd be glad to visit some time, since Islay is where
> several important facilities in my real field of research interest are
> (e.g., Lagavulin, Laphroaig, and Port Ellen Maltings), and the day and
> a half I spent there in '86 wasn't at all an exhaustive research
> expedition, merely a preliminary dig.


Indeed, conformance testing is quite secondary to these fields; perhaps
we can agree on Laphroaig as a common presentation syntax.  I am continuing
studies into the role of the MacAllen...

Now, there may be a fundamental insight here.  I see an equivalence
relation here between scotch whiskies and network architecture...
I assume you feel that a blended scotch overcomplicates whiskey
by instantiating its components in arbitrarily hierarchical
solutions, which are then mixed without proper definition of the
service interface?

Is it Session or Presentation you consider the equivalent of 
grain neutral spirits?
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