Help facilitate the incorporation of the OSI protocol suite into the Internet, to operate in parallel with the TCP/IP protocol suite. Facilitate the co-existence and interoperability of the TCP/IP and OSI protocol suites.
Milestones
Date
Milestone
Associated documents
Jan 1989
Review the OSI protocol mechanisms proposed for the upcoming Berkeley release 4.4. Coordinate efforts with Berkeley.
Jan 1989
Review short-term issues involved in adding OSI gateways to the Internet. Preferably, this should allow OSI and/or dual gateways to be present by the time that Berkeley release 4.4 comes out.
Jan 1989
For interoperability between OSI end systems and TCP/IP end systems, there will need to be application layer gateways. Determine if there are any outstanding issues here.
Jan 1989
Determine what should be used short-term for (i) intra-domain routing; and (ii) inter-domain routing.
Jan 1989
Review GOSIP. Open liaison with Government OSI Users Group (GOSIUG) for feedback of issues and concerns that we may discover.
Done milestones
Date
Milestone
Associated documents
Done
Specify an addressing format (from those available from the OSI NSAP addressing structure) for use in the Internet. Coordinate addressing format with GOSIP version 2 and possibly other groups.