[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[John Day]

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Session Layer, Network Layer

At 7:14 -0500 2011/02/18, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>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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