Re: Call for participation -- Is OSI really useful?

John Day <Day@bbn.com> Thu, 02 June 1994 22:36 UTC

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Simon
>
>As for salvaging bits from the OSI rubble - keep useful bits of ASN.1, 
>keep PER and BER, nuke the session layer and start again with something 
>that can be described on one piece of A4 paper (use both sides), keep just 
>enough A2CSE and presentation to be useful (2 pieces of A4 each), keep 
>X.500 around as a valuable source of experience, and send X.400 back to the
>pit of Hell from which it first crawled.
>
I couldn't agree more.  Only I wouldn't keep the session layer as
functions for coordinating the dialog.  These functions should be ASEs.

Take care
John