--On Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:20 -0400 Noel Chiappa
<jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
> From: John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
> It is worth remembering that in the most critical part
of that period, > the IETF wasn't developing/pushing
TCP/IP in the marketplace but had > its face firmly
immersed in the KoolAid trough
Ahem. There were quite a few of us in the IETF sphere who were
not at all fans of the OSI stack - and we worked very hard on
TCP/IP, and the deployment thereof, precisely to kill the OSI
stack.
Noel,
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, only that there was
sufficient IETF consensus to keep an Area and, if I recall,
several WGs going.
john