35+ years ago, the ancestors of these people tried to force OSI on the world. The Feds in the US even "mandated" it with GOSIP. While there were giant Interop

35+ years ago, the ancestors of these people tried to force OSI on the world. The Feds in the US even "mandated" it with GOSIP. While there were giant Interop conferences in the 80's and early 90's for TCP, where every vendor had to demonstrate they could interoperate with everyone else, OSI never managed anything remotely close, because it was too complicated. Like the EC's structure. Instead, the tech community just proceeded with TCP and the Internet suite of protocols. Even when forced to buy "OSI-compliant" equipment, they actually ran TCP on their networks. Eventually OSI just died. Some vestiges survived, like LDAP and the notion of the "seven-layer model" (mainly 1-4). It's deeply, deeply ironic that, now that the Internet is global, the Eurocrats are back trying to take it over.