[Dave Piscitello <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ICL - International Computers, Ltd.

They were very involved in British Standards Institute and European 
Computer Manufacturer's Association in the 1980s. Lots of senior and smart 
fellows. If I hunted in my attic, I could probably find ECMA documents 
describing this as a "FINAL DRAFT", and I think it was submitted to ISO and 
IEEE in the 1980s but declined as an international standard. I didn't 
realize they'd continued to use it on proprietary LANs, but I'm not 
surprised it's still around (nothing about network protocols surprises me 
any longer).

At 05:38 PM 5/23/2003 +0100, CNS - Matthew Bradley wrote:
> I've done some more investigation. The protocol is an ICL (a brand now
> subsumed into Fujitsu) protocol called OSLAN (try a Google search on OSLAN
> protocol). OSLAN is, as Dave was describing, TP4 over 802.3; I don't know
> about the null CLNP stuff.
>
> OSLAN is in widespread use in the UK - wherever there is an ICL mainframe.
> This tends to be government organisations or organisations with a government
> legacy, like ourselves.


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