[mod.protocols.tcp-ip] Short course on DDN to be avoided

jbn@FORD-WDL1.ARPA (01/15/86)

     Computerworld this week has an article about the DoD protocol
standards.  It contains such gems as

    ``DOD-issued protocol standards include the following:

    [Sections on IP, TCP, FTP, SMTP deleted. JN]
  
    * Telenet.  A terminal-handling program, GTE Telenet Communications
      Corp.'s Telenet was designed primarily to handle simple asynchronous
      terminals but will also support synchronous terminal traffic.''


					CW, 13JAN86, p. 19

The author of the article, William Stallings (some DC-area consultant) is 
suppposedly conducting a seminar on this at the University of Maryland on 
4-6 June, 1986.  Surely the U of Md can come up with somebody who actually
knows the subject; this guy doesn't even know what the big words mean yet.

				John Nagle

lixia@COMET.LCS.MIT.EDU (Lixia Zhang) (01/15/86)

John,

I'm not so sure how CW made such a joke.  I happened to be the reviewer
of one of Stallings' books, "Data and Computer Communications", in which the
author talked both "Telenet" and "Telnet" right (though the INDEX made a mess
on the two words).

Lixia

HARMAN@STL-HOST1.ARPA (01/16/86)

Request future traffic on this subject be routed to DELHD-MI at
STL-HOST1.  This will expedite delivery.  Regards, Dick Harman