Re: [Hist Trivia] IP Protocol Layers

[Steve Deering <deering at cisco.com>]

At 12:07 PM -0700 7/18/01, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
>ps: many of us still use "router" instead of "intermediate-system" and
>"host" instead of "end-system", so i guess i have to question just how
>useful all that OSI stuff really was.

We used to use "gateway" instead of "router" (and a few still do), and
I always thought the change to the "router" term was due to some sort
of OSI political correctness.  If not OSI, who gets credit for imposing
the "router" jargon on the IP world?  Was it the DEC folks (mostly Radia?)?

Steve