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The ISO/OSI Reference Model, continued

While [the ISO/OSI] model may or may not be a good way to organize real, live computer networks, it makes an excellent framework for organizing a book about them. Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks (2/e), 1988

The deployment and acceptance of networking standards can be difficult, as evidenced by the irony of this early marketing literature:

IBM is the only company that's shipping end-user networking software that conforms to OSI standards. The OSI stamp is important because it assures corporate users that the networking software will easily connect to other vendors' systems and software. IBM marketing literature, 1987


CITS3002 Computer Networks, Lecture 1, Introduction to Computer Networks, p10, 28th February 2024.