Re: Network databases

lynn_at_garlic.com wrote:
> a couple other xml history pages
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/xmlstuff.html
> http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/~bli/xml_proj/final-1.html

and for even more drift ... in section6/eulogy of the above xmlstuff reference there is some amount of comparison with ISO OSI.

in the late 80s and early 90s, some number of govs. had mandated the elimination of internetworking and complete transistion to OSI (little things like GOSIP by the us federal gov).

about the same time we were involved w/HSP (high speed protocol) in ISO chartered ansi x3s3.3. there were a number of problems ... primarily ISO had an edict that no standardization would occur for anything that violated OSI model (and, if effect, the OSI model couldn't be changed). HSP had several problems because it would go directly from level4/transport to LAN/MAC interface ... along the way supporting IP; some ISO complications (because of the edict that no standardization could occur for anything that violated the OSI model) were:

1. HSP bypassed the level3/level4 interface ... violating OSI
2. HSP supported internetworking (IP) ... IP doesn't exist at all in the the OSI model, IP is violation of OSI model, so supporting IP is also a violation of OSI model
3. LAN/MAC interface is somewhere in the middle of layer3/networking ... LANs/MACs are violation of OSI model ... so anything interfacing to LANs/MACs is also a violation of OSI model.