LOL! (Especially GSM remark)

Actually, TCP/IP suite maps very well to OSI model (and has, err, inspired it). True, particular protocols OSI proposed were virtually never used (I remeber that, once upon a time, ICL insisted on them). They were a bit better designed (because they could learn from TPC/IP ones), but were overly complicated and, well, as I said, nobody used them .

The model is still valid and usefull, though, and the life would generally be easier if a well defined set of protocols for session and presentation layers existed (as they to for the lower 4), in stead of every application inventing their own.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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