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

[Bob Purvy]

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

I actually can't remember how that was supposed to work, under the
contract. I don't *think* ISODE was involved, but I could be wrong.


On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> > 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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