Re: Lost Layer?

On 2/11/2014 10:47 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> In CSNET, IP ran atop X.25, and IP was the API that allowed someone to select which X.25 destination they might go to.
>
> Get over it. X.25 is a network, and the Internet is a Network, and one often runs over the other. As in X.25/TCP/IP/CSNET and other bizarre things.


CSNet had an even earlier bit of layer that you might enjoy:

    RFC733/CSNet Mail/CSNet Phonenet/X.25

Since CSNet had Internet (well, initially Arpanet) gateways at UDel and 
Rand, this meant that end-to-end Arpanet/Internet mail often transited 
over a telephone link and mail protocol which ran over X.25.

Wouldn't surprise me if some example had

   RFC822/CSNetMail/Phonenet/X.25 <Gateway> X.25/IP/TCPSMTP/RFC822


d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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