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Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 12:28:14


--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