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Marcus Watts (mdw@umich.edu)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:55:06 -0500
Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> Mr. Shen, I suggest you read Mike Padlidpsky's "Elements of Networking
> Style", a mid-80's book that debunked the seven-ness wonderfully.
> Likely the funniest technical book ever written.
>
M.A.Padlipsky has also written several RFC's, including:
RFC 871 A Perspective on the Arpanet Reference Model
(which talks about ARM vs. ISORM.)
RFC 875 Gateways, Architectures, and Heffalumps
which includes this marvelous paragraph:
" In our collective zeal to remain (or become)
abreast of the State of the Art, we sometimes
fall into one or the other (or both) of a couple
of pitfalls. Only one of these pitfalls is
particularly well-known: "Buzzwords" -- and
even here merely knowing the name doesn't
necessarily effect a spontaneous solution. The
other deserves more attention: inadequate
familiarity with The Relevant Literature. "
RFC 874 A Critique of X.25
A rather more detailed critique of ISORM, if
you still believe in "seven-ness".
RFC 872 "TCP-ON-A-LAN"
(explains the basics of TCP/IP networking.)
These are available for free electronically and don't
depend on the vagaries of the book distribution system.
Visit:
http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc871.txt
(replace 871 with the appropriate number)
To get a complete list, try:
http://ds.internic.net/ds/rfc-index.html
Ds.internic.net appears to be *very* slow. These appear to be
much faster:
[1]
http://www.merit.edu/internet/documents/rfc/
http://www.merit.edu/internet/documents/rfc/rfc0871.txt
[2]
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/reference/rfc/rfc871.txt
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/reference/rfc/rfc-index.txt
-Marcus Watts
UM ITD PD&D Umich Systems Group
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:25