--On Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:20 -0400 Noel Chiappa
<jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx>
>
> > It is worth remembering that in the most critical part
> of that period, > the IETF wasn't developing/pushing
> TCP/IP in the marketplace but had > its face firmly
> immersed in the KoolAid trough
>
> Ahem. There were quite a few of us in the IETF sphere who were
> not at all fans of the OSI stack - and we worked very hard on
> TCP/IP, and the deployment thereof, precisely to kill the OSI
> stack.
Noel,
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, only that there was
sufficient IETF consensus to keep an Area and, if I recall,
several WGs going.
john