David Conrad wrote:
I'd offer that the OSI protocol stack was probably significantly more
reviewed than the TCP/IP stack.
Depends what you mean by "more reviewed".
More eyes looking at the specs? Probably yes. More critical analysis by
senior technical architects? Probably not.
> At the very least, running code is an empirical proof that an
> architecture _can_ work.
Again, depends upon what one means by running code.
Certainly there were early prototypes of OSI modules, and even running
products. Clearly, that was not enough. In contrast, the Internet code was
deployed and used in a running service, with increasing scale. So the
distinction between prototype and production is probably of fundamental
importance. (I think that Dave Clark really meant "running service" when he
said "running code".)
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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