ms6b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Marvin Sirbu) (05/29/90)
>I don't think Erik was being gratuitously devisive. As I recall, he was >responding to a question (it has long since been deleted from storage on >my news server) about why ISO had both a connection-oriented and a >connectionless network service when it is so difficult to achieve >interoperability with both. He observed that all other members of ISO >wanted connection-oriented network service; only the US insisted on >connectionless service. This is a fact, not an attempt to be devisive. >Alex McKenzie I was under the impression that not just the U.S. but also ECMA played a major role in getting ISO to think in terms of connectionless network service. In fact, the earliest drafts of TP4, designed to operate over connectionless networks, were prepared by ECMA. Marvin Sirbu Carnegie Mellon University