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- From: peter@globv1.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.142954.1306@globv1.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:29:54 GMT
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- petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) writes:
-
- >The problem I have is that it creates yet another set of "islands" in
- >the network that have to be interfaced. Given, those islands are
- >larger, but they are still islands.
-
- That is the difference between the bottom up and top down approach. You
- propose a top down approach. The proposed bottom up approach (i.e. the TDS-0001
- document) will solve the short term problems of a small group of people. And
- a top down approach would solve long term problems. So I don't think that
- either way is "better" than the other as they have different goals. In short,
- it is good to have a short term solution, but it would be even better to have
- a long term solution, a real generic standard, as well.
-
- >It would be better to ignore the
- >"operating system specific" concepts and go for REAL standards that are
- >usable by everyone rather than a subset. There's so much that is left
- >out of this document that it's difficult to use.
-
- Well, then you're going to talk about functionality and not about
- implementation. That would still allow for different implementations of the
- same standard to be incompatible. Have a peek in comp.mail.misc, there is a
- discussion about "the UNIX mailbox format". All mailboxes use a RFC-822 type
- message layout, but there are nevertheless many incompatibilities.
-
- >The best thing to do is just simply adopt the Internet standard which
- >will allow for almost anything on the face of the planet. The date
- >standard I mentioned is the european one, not the american one.
-
- That won't help the people that are stuck with FidoNet stuff at all. The
- only thing for MS-DOS that looks like a BBS (flames >/dev/null please) and
- does USENET and e-mail is Waffle.
-
- >RFCs and other Internet documents are available via anonymous FTP at
- >nic.ddn.mil. There's an index file there (there are currently 1400 RFCs
- >and several hundered Internet Drafts).
-
- You can also get them by sending e-mail to <something>@nic.ddn.mil, but I
- forgot the <something> part.
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
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