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skidmore@europa.asd.contel.com (William E. Skidmore) writes:

>I am trying to piece together (at the system level) the start of a GOSIP-based
>network.  In addition to the GOSIP requirement, there is an additional requirement
>that some users (and their associated LANS) be covered by DNSIX (the USDIA
>mandated protocol for use in intelligence communities).  Since the requirement
>for GOSIP stipulates that all end users will use the full seven layers of
>GOSIP, and the intermediate processors use only the lower three layers, and
>DNSIX is TCP/IP-based, we recognize that the two cannot coexist within the
>current standards atmosphere.  Information derived from Mitre Corp (the people
>who wrote the DNSIX protocol spec for DIA) indicates that they intend to
>discuss the issue of GOSIP/DNSIX coexistence sometime during CY91.  My network
>must start to be implemented during 4QTR CY91.

>Does anyone have any info on prototype implementations of a network that
>uses both DNSIX and GOSIP?

>--
>Bill Skidmore

Bill...

Unless you're connecting to DODIIS (The DoD Intelligence Information System)
I don't think you need DNSIX...
If you are connecting to DODIIS, then you don't hafta worry about GOSIP, yet
(because DODIIS is TCP-IP)...

Brian

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