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From: mckee@MITRE.MITRE.ORG (H. Craig McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: TCP/IP versus OSI
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Date: 15 May 89 16:41:59 GMT
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>From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@ahwahnee.Stanford.EDU>
>
>If the two sides must remain "pure" to their base technology -- i.e.,
>there may be no change to the environments on either side -- then you
>are stuck with using application gateways.  These implement all of
>both stacks, all the way up to and including both sets of applications,
>with an "eighth" layer that translates from one application to the
>other.

I heard a "war story" concerning the 1982 cutover from NCP to TCP:
That application bridges were built for Mail, FTP and TELNET, but only
the Mail and FTP bridges proved successful; the TELNET bridge was too
difficult or slow, or both.  I think the list would like to hear from
those who were "present at the creation."  Regards - Craig