Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG!gross From: gross@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Phill Gross) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Ethernet meltdowns Message-ID: <8707161232.AA03351@gateway.mitre.org> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:32:46 EDT Article-I.D.: gateway.8707161232.AA03351 Posted: Thu Jul 16 08:32:46 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 06:54:32 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 10 > 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.