From: lynn@garlic.com   
      
   rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:   
   > Unfortunately, interest in XTP has waned markedly in recent years,   
   > despite the U.S. Navy's use of it for SAFENET.   
      
   part of the problem at the time was that the fed. gov. had mandates   
   (GOSIP) to eliminate tcp/ip and the internet and move everything to   
   OSI/ISO. Some number of the XTP participants were either gov. agencies   
   and/or other organizations that believed the GOSIP mandates.   
      
   as a result there was effort to take xtp(hsp) to x3s3.3 (ISO chartered   
   US standards group responsible for level 3&4 in the OSI model) for   
   standardization. However x3s3.3 was under ISO (charter) restrictions to   
   not do standardization for stuff that violated the OSI model ... and   
   there were various pieces of XTP/HSP that violated the OSI model (which   
   then precluded x3s3.3 ever really doing anything with xtp/hsp).   
      
   on the tcp/internet side ... there were lots of stuff with wide-spread   
   (widely deployed) commodity implementations and XTP was moving up the   
   value chain ... which represented some barrier on the internet side.   
      
   tcp/ip was the technology basis for the modern internet ... but the   
   nsfnet backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet (and   
   CIX was going to be the business basis for the modern internet).   
      
   we had been involved in some of the early NSFNET backbone activity as   
   well as doing our own highspeed backbone (copper, fiber, satellite, T1 &   
   higher speed). when the T1 NSFNET backbone RFP was released, internal   
   politics prevented us from bidding. The director of NSF wrote a letter   
   to the corporation (co-signed by some others), copying the CEO and   
   referenced wanting us involved and things like what we already had   
   running was at least five years ahead (possibly 20) of all RFP responses   
   to build something new. That just made the internal politics worse.   
      
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