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

[Dave Crocker]

On 9/5/2016 2:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 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.


That's probably a reasonable date to cite for declaring its failure as 
being clearly and publicly visible, but I'd claim it was undeniably over 
some years before that.

I think I've noted this already, but around 1987 my department was 
developing both various TCP/IP stacks as well as an OSI stack.  As work 
progressed, we started asking our customer base about the kind of 
products they might need to assist in the transition from using Internet 
technologies to using OSI.

We were unprepared for how consistent the response was.  They had 
serious interest only in going from OSI to TCP.  There was zero interest 
in the other direction.

In my view, that was a game-over moment.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net