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Re: [Hist Trivia] IP Protocol Layers

2001-07-18 10:30:02
You asked "so did the vocabulary end up being the most 
           important contribution of OSI to networking?"
           
You got it!!!  

See "The ISO Reference Model and Other Protocol Architectures"
By Danny Cohen and Jon Postel, IFIP'83, Sept-1983, pp. 29-34.

To quote from that esteemed paper:

    Note the striking similarity between these statements:

        - in 1978, ISO invented the ISORM; this made computer communication
        much easier

        - in 1777, Lavoisier invented oxygent; this made breathing much
        easier.

'nuff said.

/mtr