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It is a shame that OSI didn't happen though and instead we have an ad-hoc mess of layered cake without clear boundaries as demonstrated by OSI Model.



I don't agree: the OSI protocols were the classic camel-is-a-horse-designed-by-committee: heavyweight and looked like a pain to use. Looked like, as I never saw a working stack.

The IETF/RFC/Working Code/Interop(RIP) approach has given V4 incredibly long legs. At least the OSI model itself kinda survived.


ISODE [1] worked, and it was usable before there were commercial ISPs offering TCP/IP services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_Development_Environment


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