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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP has SLIP, OSI has ???
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:29:45 GMT
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- > If you prefer CLNP, check the latest PPP version. It supports OSI in addition
- > to TCP/IP.
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- I thought the PPP-OSI had only progressed to some sort of draft status.
- In any case, to have the protocol defined doesn't mean it'd be widely
- implemented (unfortunately).
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- The fact that the APS Alliance (or so I understand) voted down a PPP
- based proposal at their meeting is alarming. It would be synchronistically
- groovy if the ISO crowd would recognize the wide availablility of PPP
- and `allow' for TP0..4 to traverse PPP-OSI paths. Since PPP supports
- multiple protocols this would let IP, DECnet, AppleTalk, Novell IPX and OSI
- packets interoperate on the same telephone wire just as they do on the
- same ethernet wire right now.
-
- Sigh.. why does NIH have to rear its ugly head so often???
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- "As near as I can tell, only selected dinosaur systems that lurk mainly inside
- <- the US DoD won't be MIME-capable soon." - Ran Atkinson <atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
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