[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[Miles Fidelman]

I seem to recall the story that, once Europeans saw the shownet at one 
of the European Interop shows, and realized that TCP/IP was working, 
while OSI was still vaporware... the game was over.

Dan.. you'd probably be the one to validate this.

Miles

Dan Lynch via Internet-history wrote:
> At Interop we were a teaching organization about interoperability so while we were TCP/IP bigots if the world was going to OSI we would definitely teach that too. Only a few students signed up for the OSI courses. We only offered them for a few years. I think by 91 it disappeared. The buyer is king.
>
> Dan
>
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>
>> On Mar 18, 2022, at 11:34 AM, Andrew G. Malis via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's been a while, but as I recall, as a part of this requirement,
>> TCP/IP-to-OSI transition plans were necessary. While I was at BBN, I wrote
>> such a transition plan for the MILNET (or it might have been for the DoD as
>> a whole, as I said, things are hazy). I'm sure that it just went on a shelf
>> somewhere once the requirement for a plan was met.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:02 PM Bob Purvy via Internet-history <
>>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was around for all this, but probably not as much as some of you. So many
>>> memories fade...
>>>
>>> I've been reading this
>>> <
>>> https://courses.cs.duke.edu//common/compsci092/papers/govern/consensus.pdf
>>>> .
>>> This passage...
>>>
>>>
>>> *By August 1990, federal agencies were required to procure
>>> GOSIP-compliantproducts. Through this procurement requirement, the
>>> government intended to stimulate the market for OSI products. However, many
>>> network administrators resisted the GOSIP procurement policy and continued
>>> to operate TCP/IP networks, noting that the federal mandate, by specifying
>>> only procurement, did not prohibit the use of products built around the
>>> more familiar and more readily available TCP/IP.*
>>>
>>> ... in particular stuck out for me. Admins were required to go OSI, but
>>> somehow it never happened.  Does anyone have any personal stories to relate
>>> about this, either your own or someone else's?
>>>
>>> *Disclosure*: I'm writing historical fiction, mostly because that's what I
>>> want to do. So there won't be any actual names in whatever I write. I'm
>>> interested in the private choices people make, not the institutions,
>>> towering figures, and impersonal forces that most historians write about.
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