[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

John Day wrote:
> At 7:14 -0500 2011/02/18, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> You've said that before.  Can you elaborate with some examples of 
>> where ISO has simply codified existing practice?
Screw threads, highway signs, paper size, HDLC, Transport Layer, Session 
Layer, Network Layer

I was all set to buy "screw threads" - until I read the Wikipedia 
article on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_thread#History_of_standardization

Re. Transport, Session, Network layer: how can you say that with a 
straight face, after all the recent discussion here?  (I don't see an 
ISO number stamped on TCP/IP.)

Miles Fidelman


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