[ih] First Eurociscos [was Ethernet, was Why TCP]

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 05/09/2016 23:09, Tony Finch wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03/09/2016 12:08, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume that ISO would not count as civilian?
>>>
>>> They are one of my solid European customers in the latter 1980s, so I
>>> assume they had a router product (but not from me).
>>
>> There were quite a few Proteons about, but although I may well have known at
>> the time, I've no idea what ISO had. I suppose they were mainly an X.400/X.25 shop
>> at that time? (To my knowledge, the ITU's first contact with the Internet was when
>> CERN gave Guy Girardet an email account in 1991, so I'm sure they had no IP in the
>> 1980's.)
> 
> I seem to remember one of the criticisms of OSI around that time was that
> it was so unready for production that even ISO used TCP/IP.
> 
> e.g. this account of Carl Malamud's visit in 1991 mentions this fact
> towards the end - http://museum.media.org/eti/Prologue01.html

The game was over by 1991, although not everybody had realised it. The ITU didn't
really fold until 1995, but ISO certainly got there sooner.

    Brian


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> Tony.
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