[ih] Quantifying OSI

[John Day]

Ross worked in the Network Layer group which was in a different US committee and ISO committee. 

Most of the work on ASN.1 was done by Bancroft Scott, but of course there was a committee working on it.
That was after the Brits made a mess of it.

The less said about X.400  the better. I have no idea why they would have been boning up on their French. All meetings were conducted in English.

There were some NIST participants, but they were a small fraction of the total.

Take care,
John

> On May 11, 2026, at 10:48, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> For a chunk of time, NIST funded a bunch of BBN folks to attend including
> Ross Callon (whom, I understand, did a big chunk of the heavy lifting on
> CLNP) and Debbie Deutsch (ASN.1 and I think parts of X.400).  They used to
> meet in the cafeteria periodically to brush up on their (I think French?)
> language skills.
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:29 AM Carl Malamud via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Guessing NIST had a ton of employees going to ISO meetings, perhaps a FOIA
>> request (or several) is in order. Imagine they will have copies of meeting
>> minutes, enough to start to estimate the number of attendees and number of
>> meetings.
>> 
>> 
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