Re: [Hist Trivia] IP Protocol Layers

[Marshall T. Rose]

> You asked "so did the vocabulary end up being the most 
>            important contribution of OSI to networking?"
>            
> You got it!!!  
> 
> See "The ISO Reference Model and Other Protocol Architectures"
> By Danny Cohen and Jon Postel, IFIP'83, Sept-1983, pp. 29-34.

To quote from that esteemed paper:

    Note the striking similarity between these statements:

        - in 1978, ISO invented the ISORM; this made computer communication
        much easier

        - in 1777, Lavoisier invented oxygent; this made breathing much
        easier.

'nuff said.

/mtr