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From: PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky)
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Subject: Re: Some alternatives to OSI
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Date: 2 May 89 18:26:35 GMT
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Nice metaphor ... BUT everybody knows why Presentation is there (where
everybody = all Old Network Boys, who, because they understand both Telnet
and how the NVT notion was used in FTP, readily grok doing virtualization/
devirtualization in a modular fashion, even if they don't think it should
be a mandatorily separate layer that mechanizes it [and given things like
the Common ASE, neither, apparently, do some key New Network Kids]).  The
real Mystery--mayhap the Sin Against the Holy Spirit (of Layering, i.e.)--
is still Session ... unless the story that "there were some guys left over
who needed a committee" is true, in which case Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony,
and probably others all apply.

    cheers, map
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