[email protected] (Seymour J Metz) writes: > Well, at one time I expected > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Open_Systems_Interconnection_Profile > (GOSIP) to displace SNA, but the Feds went TCP/IP despite the mandate > and that was all she wrote.
Part of GOSIP was mandate to eliminate tcp/ip and internet. At Interop '88 there were some number of OSI application booths (even tho it was an internet conference) ... supposedly vendors trying to appeal to expected government customers. However both OSI & SNA didn't have internet layer (SNA also didn't have a network layer). The market went TCP/IP ... and government agencies went with the market (government in the 80s started increasingly going COTS, which was whatever the market was doing). trivia: there was joke about ISO & OSI compared to IETF & TCP/IP. IETF required at least two interoperable implementations before progressing in the standards process ... while ISO didn't even require a specification to be implementable to be made a standard. In some sense I was part of TCP/IP forces that couldn't see how OSI could ever prevale, regardless of the Federal mandates. I had IBM equipment in booth at Interop 88 (but not in the IBM booth). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
