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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: OSI Failure?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility)
- Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- References: <uig3PB1w164w@Control.Com> <1992Aug25.175150.22420@novell.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 09:11:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.175150.22420@novell.com> donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
- > is all obvious once you've fully realized that there's nothing
- > special about OSI products that makes them inherently better for
- > customers. Once you realize this, the question is no longer "Why
-
- The only question in my mind is "Why OSI and not SNA". At the very least
- a protocol should be well-defined. I have yet to see a definition of
- Novell's protocols even at the informal level that the Internet uses,
- let alone the level that OSI and SNA are defined and which allow multiple
- vendors to build cooperating products. (Yes, I know there are interoperability
- problems. This is what OSI conformance testing centres are for.)
-