Re: Crowdstrike fiasco

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:38:04 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
<tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

"By 1984, the international reference model OSI model, which was not
compatible with TCP/IP, had been agreed upon. Many European governments
(particularly France, West Germany and the UK) and the United States
Department of Commerce mandated compliance with the OSI model, while the
US Department of Defense planned to transition from TCP/IP to OSI. "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars
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Once again Lawrence is simply wrong.

In 1988 I went to a Uninet (South African Universities Network)
conference and they were discussing OSI migration.

My contribution was to persuade them to link up with the Fidonet BBS
network to connect to the Internet, which they did, and for the next
two years ALL South Africa's Internet traffic passed over a 9600 bps
dial-up line between Grahamstown in South Africa and a BBS in Oregon
USA.

Things were complicated because JANet in the UK used domain-name
addressing different from other places -- @uk.ox.ac and so on.


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