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> OSI wanted a "connection-oriented network layer", one that worked like the telephone system, where every switch in between the ends knows about the connection
by commandersaki 7y ago
> OSI wanted a "connection-oriented network layer", one that worked like the telephone system, where every switch in between the ends knows about the connection. The Internet is based on a "connectionless network layer".
Pretty sure ISO/OSI was pushing for CLNP which is "connectionless network protocol."
- kjs3 7y agoSpot on. Being there at they time, the OSI folks made much of the fact that because of their well defined layers, any of the higher levels could run over a connection-oriented or connectionless without change. In theory. We never really found out for sure.