> Take a reality check: go to Border's or any bookstore and browse books > about networking or internetworking. Tell me if you find the TCP/IP > model there or the OSI model. > > As I said before, the time to design according to a model is way passed. > What I do today as a protocol designer is based on my and other people's > experience, not on a model that was invented 20 years ago before nobody > could really envision today's Internet. > > In other words: I am not preaching for the ISO or any other model being > a set of design guidelines. What I am trying to say is that when > defining terms (read the subject of this thread) the OSI model is more > precise than the TCP/IP one and is still the one used by people > including myself that have a broader horizon than TCP/IP or the > Internet. > > Michel. I can't disagree there, every book on networking I've ever read mentions TCP/IP and goes into detail concerning OSI, unless you read a book specificly about TCP/IP. >