[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[Miles Fidelman]

Eric Gade wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com 
> <mailto:richard at bennett.com>> wrote:
>
>     In what sense was OSI top-down? The OSI process was every bit as
>     much a bottoms-up, participant-driven process as IEEE 802 is
>     today. If there ever was a top-down standards process in the
>     networking world directed by two or three lords of the purse, it
>     certainly wasn't OSI. 
>
> We sort of got into this last week, but didn't push it too far. OSI is 
> unique from an international standards perspective because the was 
> prescriptive. As far as I know, it was an unprecedented move for ISO 
> (and maybe national standards orgs?) because they typically 
> standardized existing practices.
You've said that before.  Can you elaborate with some examples of where 
ISO has simply codified existing practice?

Miles Fidelman

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