[ih] Why did TCP win? [Re: Internet-history Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Mon Feb 3 14:02:09 PST 2025


> I believe that was to use TCP/IP as the transport since you couldn't 
> count on an OSI implementation.

When people claim that Internet folk were antagonistic to OSI, they 
conveniently leave out efforts like Rose's ISODE.

Arguably, Internet folk did a lot more to try to make OSI useful than 
the OSI community did.

d/

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