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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">John,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks so much for the wealth of information. There is nothing like getting info from the source.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Have I summarized the ISO documents</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">in the list</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">below correctly from your email? Can you fill in any of the question marks?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Combined with the reference sent by Adrian Hooke</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, an interesting timeline</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> emerge</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">January 19</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">78 ANSI doc shows a 4 layer model and presumably</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">June 19</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">79 N227 has arrived at the familiar 7 layer model. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> be interesting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to see the evolution in thinking and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> "reorganization" during that period that arrived at the 7 layer model.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jake, can you add the documents below to your search?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Can anyone else add any other</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">documents</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> or comments</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> timeline?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Phill</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1978</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ANSI/X3/SPARC Study Group--Distributed Systems "Reference Model" draft 4, January 31, 1978.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">SO/TC97/SC16</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, Doc N34, March 1978</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> "Provisional model of open systems architecture",</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Location?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"A tutorial on Protocols", Louis Pouzin and Hubert Zimmerman, Proceeding of the IEEE, Vol 66, No 11, Nov 1978, Special issue on computer networks.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ISO/TC97/SC16</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, Doc N46, Month? 1978, Title?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, Washington</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ISO/TC97/SC16</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, Doc N117,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Oct</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> 1978, Title?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, Paris</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1979</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ISO/TC97/SC16,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Doc N227, June 1979,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"Reference model of open systems interconnection"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, London</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> (Reorganization between N117 and N227)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1980-1983</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Zimmer, "OSI Reference Model..." from IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 1980.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"The OSI Reference Model and other protocol architectures", Danny Cohen and Jon Postel, IFIP 83, Paris, Sept 1983.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"The OSI Reference Model", John Day and Hubert Zimmerman, IEEE Proceedings, Vol 71, No 12, Dec 1983, Special issue on Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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