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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re: X over OSI
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Date: 5 Jun 89 22:42:40 GMT
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| From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
| 
| This issue has (naturally) arisen in the ANSC X3H3.6 group working on
| formal standardization of the X protocol, since OSI is the only protocol
| suite a formal standard can reference.

  I hate to ask, but ... Is it really true that ``OSI is the only
protocol suite a formal standard can reference''??  Have the standards
bodies really institutionalized OSI bigotry?  (I don't know if I really
want to hear the answer to this one ...)

Casey