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Article #1022Re: What is "ISO"?
From: Phil R. Karn
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1986 21:50
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1986 21:50
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It is also worth mentioning that I don't think anyone has yet found a criterion by which "ISO" is somehow "better" than the ARPA protocol suite, other than its well-trumpeted status as a "future world standard". In fact, in many ways the ISO network and transport protocols are demonstrably worse than IP/TCP. Given that two hundred years ago a system of weights and measures was invented in Europe that (unlike ISO protocols) is simpler, easier to use and without question far superior to what was in common use in the US, and given that two hundred years later we're still not using it, I'm not holding my breath for an overnight conversion to ISO. Phil Karn
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site petrus.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!karn From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) Newsgroups: net.lan,net.dcom,net.decus Subject: Re: What is "ISO"? Message-ID: <76@petrus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Apr-86 16:50:06 EST Article-I.D.: petrus.76 Posted: Fri Apr 4 16:50:06 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Apr-86 08:57:44 EST References: <424@gould9.UUCP> <319@ptsfd.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 13