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ByCarl
Malamud
Jon
Po
tel
is
officialeditor
of
thTCP
standard
documents.He'sbeenalong-timeparticipant
in
TCP/IP,
and
feels
thatthe
open
na
ture
of
TCP/IP
ha
contributedtoits
success.
"Random
people,"
such
asyoung
programmers
and
student
,
have
ready
accesto
docu
ments.
And
it's
precisely
tho
e
people
who
helpedpush
TCP/IP
into
thearena
whereit
mattered
mo
t-peopleu
ing
computersinsteadofpeople
makingcomputers.
Sowhy
are
ISO
documents
so
ex
pensive?
Why
aren't
they
available
elec
tronically?One
of
the
main
reasons
is
that
both
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ICATlONSOJUNE
1990017
protocol
and
can
begin
u
ing
them
to
develop
better
oftware,computer
,
and
application
.
Butwhat
about
0
I?
E
sentially,
the
I
0'
work
will
add
aerie
of
services
to
exi
ting
tandard
that
will
make
it
po
i
ble
to
link
not
ju
t
computer
butpro
gram
themselve
,in
tum
influencing
the
hape
of
networking
and
computing
for
years
to
come.
ISOha
produced
vital,
usefultandardyet
b
pricing
OSI
docu
mentationout
of
thereach
of
0
many
p0
tential
uer,
the
I0
and
I
are
dem
on
tratingthat
the
're
remarkably
short
ighted.
DouglasComer,
a
profe
or
of
com
puter
cienceat
Purdue
Univerity
and
oneof
the
leading
TCP/IPre
earcher,
ays
his
tudents
arerequired
toexamine
TCP/IP
documents
in
cia
Comer
goes
on
to
say
that
because
of
their
co
t,051
documentsare
acquired"only
when
ab
olutely
needed."
The
re
sult,
he
says,
i
that
"fa
ulty
and
student
hereare
woefull
ignorant
of
ISO
specifi
cations
and
protocol
."
.....
ve
ot
omad
ie
for
anyonquired
in
its
licen
ing
agreement
with
intreted
in
obtainin
docu-
I
to
chargetheprice
that
AIet.
mentation
forth
Open
y
tern
(Can
I
do
that?In't
thi
priceInterconntion:Bringour
fixing?)
hekbook,
it'
not
cheap!
0
what?
A
f
w
thou
and
dollaris
B
prepared
to
pa
1
or
nobigdeal.
!
mor
a
page,
hi
h
addup
to
everal
Butwhat
about
profe
ionalwho
I
thou
anddollar
for
ra
onably
complete
ant-and
need-to
educatethem-
documentation
of
thecritical
tandard.
elve
?
What
about
universities
andmall
The
high
price
of
information
on
051
tartup
ompanie?
For
group
like
that,
i
in
harp
contra
t
to
T
P/IP,where
I
an
expen
e
of
everalthousanddollars
i
docum
nt
co
t
penni
per
pa
e.
Cheap
hardto
ju
tify.
Even
largecorporationdocumentation,
in
tum,
mean
that
large
ill
buy
fewer
et
of
docum
ntation,number
of
tudent
and
profe
ionalwhich
mean
that
vitalinformation
may
canbu
and
learn
thetandard.
well
be
in
hort
upply.
I'momethingof
anunwillin
expert
gain,
TCP/IPstand
in
strong
con-
in
thi
field
havingju
t
helled
out
1,554
tra
t.Rightnow,
several
computer
onfor
0Ipaperwork-and
that
repre
ent
public
network(collectively
known
a
only
m
late
t
inve
tment.
nd
hen
a
the
internet)
are
dedicated
toactingas
relativelpaltry
parcel
arrived,
I
naturally
I
information
servers.
Theyprovidelibrar
thought
that
orne
of
what
r
drequested
I
ie
of
tandardsdocuments
that
can
be
had
beenback-ordered.
Fooli
h
me.
I
got
I
mailed
electronically
or
downloaded
for
a
verything
Ia
ked
for:
a
four-inchtacknominal
service
charge.
of
paperthat
co
t
me.50
an
inch.
I
TheComputer
and
Science
etworkThe
big
difference
betweenTCP/IP
(CS
ET),
for
example,maintains
an
in
and
0I
is
that
the
latter
is
copyrighted
t
formationserverthat
ha
beenpro
by
theInternationalOrganization
for
grammed
to
re-
tandardization(ISO),
while
TCP/IP
doc-
pond
automati-
umentation
i
in
the
publicdomain.
cally
toelectronic
Ifyou
happento
be
traveling
in
Eu-
mail
reque
ts.
Therope,
the
I0
(Geneva)
will
ellyoudoc-
I
co
t
tothe
user
iumentationdirectly.
In
theUnited
imply
thecharge
State
,
the
ISO
hasgivenexclusive
dis-
incurred
fore-mail.
tribution
right
to
th
American
ationalThroughthe
inter-tandard
In
titute
(A
I).
That
mean
net,the
CS
ET
that
I0
won't
hip
document
to
the
info
erver
isavail-
tates.
able
to
users
on
I
tock
mo
t
ISO
documents,
y
tern
like
CompuServe,
MCIMail,
and
but
if
ou're
not
an
in
titutional
member,
I
BITET.
you'vegot
to
prepay
th
order.
0
credit
I
TCP/IP
information
alway
has
beencard
,
by
the
ay.
ea
y
to
get.
For
thatrea
on,many
univer-
If
you
needthedocument
in
a
hurry
I
ities
andsmall
companie
contributed
orwant
a
draft
tandard
(which
SI
greatly
to
theoverallshape
of
thedoesn't
tock),the
r
ice
of
a
firm
like
tandard.
Omnicom(Vienna,
Va.)
are
in
order.
Theuniver
itiesare
really
the
key.
But
both
Ornnicomand
I
chargetudents
pend
hours
learning
the
intri-
the
arne
amount
for
I0tandard,
I
caciesofTCP/IP.
When
they
go
to
workwhich
i
no
coincidence:
Omnicom
i
re-
for
a
corporation,they
know
about
the
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