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In article <SALKIELD.93Jan26224429@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>, 
salkield@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Tom Salkield) writes:

>I am posting on behalf of a friend who needs to compare the layers of
>the internet protocol suite with the OSI seven layer model as part of
>his course assignment.

If you find any treatment of this that is both thorough and also 
objective and neutral, please let the rest of us know!

Almost any computer networks textbook will spend a page or two stating
that TCP corresponds to OSI Transport, IP to OSI net, but IP is 
connectionless while OSI is CO. That's about it - sometimes I wonder
how they can spend several pages saying nothing more.

Then you have the fighting young priests, making detailed comparisons
for the sole purpose of showing how useless (wretched or whatever) one
alternative is, compared to the other. For an excellent example of
this approach you may read M.T.Rose's treatment of OSI Session in The
Open Book. (If anyone would like to read my 40-page comment to The Open
Book, give me a hint and I'll mail it to you as a Postscript file.)

If a text exists at M.T.Rose's level of detail, but without his personal
opinions and judgements, I would be *very* happy to know of it!


Ketil Albertsen, 
College lecturer in computer communication courses