[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[vinton cerf]

LOL - I had not remembered that but thanks for the reminder!!

v


On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 3:11 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 2/10/2023 11:51 AM, Vint Cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> > ellen was viscerally opposed to TCP/IP - visited IBM HQ at one point and
> > got an earful.
>
> Lots of willful thinking during that time.  I have always treasured the
> panel you were on, with the OSI advocate from Boing, around 1990.  You
> had just commented that the TCP/IP world did not focus on formal,
> conformance tests but instead favoring actual interoperability exercises.
>
> One or two people on the panel after you made their comments. Then the
> Boeing OSI advocate commented that interoperability required formal
> conformance tests.  With you usual deadpan face, you slowly leaned
> forward, turned your head to look at her, held it for a beat, and then
> sat back.
>
> d/
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