levinson@accur8.UUCP (Edward Levinson) (06/14/90)
In UNIX Today!, June 11, 1990, on pg. 38 an article entitled "Net Tools
Ease Move From TCP/IP To OSI" appears about The Wollongong Group's OSI
product, WIN/OSI.
The following statement sounded strange to me. Can anyone shed some
light on what Wollongong really means.
"Wollongong recommends a four-part strategy for migration to
OSI, starting with modifications to lower-level TCP/IP
communications. Phase 2 allows OSI applications to run over
TCP/IP lower-level protocols. Phase 3 introduces the TSB
gateway from TCP/IP to OSI. And, finally, full OSI compliance
occurs in Phase 4."
Except for Phase 1 this sounds like ISODE. Is this really a
productized ISODE? What does the first phase mean? (Could it be
adding RFC1066 code?) Earlier in the story a "mixed stack" is
referred to, again implying ISODE.
The next paragraph is stranger. It says that there is a SNMP agent
that "allows OSI devices to access Internet SNMP stations." This
suggests to me that TWG has an SNMP agent on top of an OSI stack. At
$200 sounds too good to be true. Can anyone shed some light here?
Mostly it sounds like a garbled press release. Garbled when it got
close to the real technical issues.
Thanks.../Ed
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