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 Edward Levinson Disclaimer: The opinions expressed levinson%accur8.uucp@uunet.uu.net here are my own and not that of Accurate Information Systems Inc. Accurate Information Systems Inc. 3000 Hadley Road South Plainfield, NJ 07080 (201) 754-7714