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From: gross@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Phill Gross)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet meltdowns
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:32:46 EDT
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> The people who
> will be implementing ISO are exactly the same people who have ignored
> the TCP/IP implementation guidelines.  If people can do IP's that
> don't respond to ICMP echo ... 

At least in theory, this is not the way it is supposed to work.  A principal 
reason for eventually converting to ISO protocols is that they will be 
off-the-shelf, conforming products freely available from all vendors, 
where `conformance' is meant to imply both adherence to the standard 
and interoperation between vendor implementations.