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Aucbvax.6260 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Mon Feb 22 20:03:33 1982 Re: UNIX & Workstations & Networking ... >From lwa.mit-csr@BRL Mon Feb 22 09:09:36 1982 With respect to uniform network protocol standards:

HEAR! HEAR!

Our experience here at MIT has been that interconnecting network HARDWARE is (relatively) easy. We have two different ringnets, an experimental (ie 3 Mbaud) Ethernet, Chaosnet, and of course Arpanet, and it is possible to forward packets among all of them. Unfortunately, there are almost as many network protocols as networks, and it appears that protocol translation is a very difficult problem.

Protocol standardization within an organization is, of course, as much a political and administrative problem as a technical one. Each of the available network protocols has its own technical advantages and disadvantages. Also, writing network software seems to require a great deal of time and manpower, so I don't expect the situation to improve very quickly. -------

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