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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!pyrltd!bjcong!roger
  2. From: roger@bjcong.bj.co.uk (ROGER JAMES)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
  4. Subject: Re: TCP/IP has SLIP, OSI has ???
  5. Message-ID: <159@bjcong.bj.co.uk>
  6. Date: 7 Jan 93 08:33:03 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan6.202505.26759@twg.com>
  8. Reply-To: roger@bjcong.UUCP (ROGER JAMES)
  9. Organization: Boldon James Limited (UK)
  10. Lines: 15
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan6.202505.26759@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
  13. >Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
  14. >
  15. >The fact that the APS Alliance (or so I understand) voted down a PPP
  16. >based proposal at their meeting is alarming.  It would be synchronistically
  17. >groovy if the ISO crowd would recognize the wide availablility of PPP
  18. >and `allow' for TP0..4 to traverse PPP-OSI paths.  Since PPP supports
  19. >
  20.  
  21. The APS alliance "voted down" OSI-PPP because we thought it would happen
  22. anyway. If I remember the conference call correctly it will be mentioned
  23. as one of the recommended profiles. The "voting down" was to do with
  24. the technical group doing work on it, we will be working on other profiles.
  25. -- 
  26. roger@bj.co.uk
  27.