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4 Status of DOD and ISO Protocol Implementations and Specifications
Pages 25-30

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... iTransport Control Protocol, DOD MIL-STD-1778, August 1983. 12The ARPANET is a data communications network established in 1969 by the DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency to interconnect the computer resources at selected research centers at substantially lower costs than systems then available.
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... . INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANI ZATI ON Standardization and development of the ISO IP and ISO TP-4 are proceedinq in a relatively independent fashion.
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... ectronics EnaiVendors committed to the demonstration developed and tested TP-4 implementations using the NBS test tools. The workshops defined a schedule that called for individual testing through April 1984 with multivendor testing commencing thereafter.
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... In the absence of an ISO routing algorithm, a network must be based on either proprietary routing algorithms or on other standards. The committee has studied the current ISO IP and the current ISOaddressing structure.
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... Such networks are currently in place using vendor proprietary architectures. Market pressures to build multivendor LAN and WAN networks make it quite likely that vendors will adopt the immediate solution and implement the connectionless ISO IP.
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