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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Jake,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thanks for the offer. It sounds like you have an interesting volunteer
job, and very appropriate for these purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I’d love to get copies of the following papers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:63.6pt;text-indent:-.55in;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>"The OSI Reference Model and
other protocol architectures", Danny Cohen and Jon Postel, IFIP 83, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place>, Sept 1983.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2 face=Symbol><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>"A tutorial on Protocols",
Louis Pouzin and Hubert Zimmerman, Proceeding of the IEEE, Vol 66, No 11, Nov 1978,
Special issue on computer networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>"The OSI Reference Model",
John Day and Hubert Zimmerman, IEEE Proceedings, Vol 71, No 12, Dec 1983, Special
issue on Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).<o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Zimmer, "OSI Reference
Model..." from IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 1980.
(from Craig Partridge)<o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The Pouzin article is said to be one of the earliest to reference the
OSI model. Craig provided the 1980 IEEE reference.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Regarding actual standards documents, I’m looking for any copy of
X.200 or ISO 7498 prior to 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I have the 1984 CCITT Red book that includes X.200. I’ve
seen references to a 1978 “Gray Book” with X.200. If you have the Gray
book, or if your Yellow book has X.200 and is earlier than 1984, then we have a
score.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Craig also gave the following ISO references from the 1980 IEEE
article:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>ISO/TC97/SC16 "Provisional
model of open systems architecture",<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Doc N34, March 1978.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>ISO/TC97/SC16, "Reference
model of open systems interconnection,"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Doc N227, June 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Getting copies of any of the above would be a great help.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Jack H, I’ve already contacted Mike Padlipsky and received the
figures for his RFC 871 (1982). His figures are an interesting half
circular representation of the three layer Arpanet model, which he adapted from
an earlier Davidson/Postel paper (see below). I’d be interested to
see if the Cohen/Postel paper above also has a version of the half-circle
diagram. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Scott B, thanks for the pointer to G.805. I’d already found
that thread and discovered the truth about “layer networks” and
conflation. :) If you come across 3-plane references prior to BISDN, let
me know.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thanks to all who have provided references and insights. And, its
great to hear from so many old friends and colleagues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Phill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><img width=375 height=233 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01C5F92C.F1FF3A00"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>[Diagram above from Davidson/Postel/et al, "The ARPANET Telnet
Protocol: Its Purpose, Principles, Implementation, and Impact on Host Operating
System Design", Proc Fifth Data Communications Symposium, ACM/IEEE,
Snowbird, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Utah</st1:place></st1:State>,
Sept 1977.]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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