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In article <SES.92Sep26220024@cmns-sun.think.com> ses@cmns-sun.think.com (Simon Edward Spero) writes:
>about the OSI growth patterns; however the moral loss of the Janet community
>to JIPS ought to have sent things into a bit of a slide. Since Janet
>was supposed to be an OSI flagship, and since people are only using the OSI
>side of things when they are forced to at budget-point, this is a major
>climbdown. Negative exponential is still exponential though.

There is no sense in which JANET is converting to IP. JIPS is an IP
service _on top of_ JANET, i.e. X.25, as an alternative to the Coloured
Book protocols. JANET has never been an 'OSI flagship', except in the
sense that it has always stated its intention to move to OSI eventually.
FYI, for every real person who wants IP on JANET, there are probably
at least 10 who want Novell IPX or AppleTalk on JANET.

Erik Naggum writes:
> CCITT (and IBM) are not that liberal.

SAA is based on three protocol suites: SNA, OSI and TCP/IP. I don't notice
many other vendors making strategic commitments to OSI.