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> Actually, my current belief is that rather than trying to improve the
> TCP/IP suite with new services, effort should be put into increasing the
> range of ISO/OSI functions.

It seems to me we're always faced with migrating to something new.  The
question may be whether the OSI suite gets adopted before it's superseded
by something else entirely.

> This may, of course mean moving OSI/ISO (I never
> am sure which order of the letters I should use at which time :-)

Rule of thumb: "ISO OSI" is always correct usage in English -- ISO is
the sponsoring organization, and OSI is the architecture itself.

> Besides, everyone knows that the *true* international language will
> be Esperanto.  :-)

Seriously, I would say that Swahili has a far better chance than
Esperanto.  It has far more speakers.  Despite the fact that BITNET
has an Esperanto discussion group but none on Swahili, Esperanto
doesn't have much of a constituency -- and that is already better
served by English.  For that matter, there's still Latin...
                                John