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| | History of the Internet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | Standards like X.400 for e-mail took up several large books, while Internet e-mail took only a few dozen pages at most in RFC-821 and 822. |
 | | Most protocols and specifications in the OSI stack, such as token-bus media, CLNP packet delivery, FTAM file transfer, and X.400 e-mail, are long-gone today; in 1996, ISO finally acknowledged that TCP/IP had won and killed the OSI project. |
 | | Only one OSI standard, (additional info and facts about X.500) X.500 (additional info and facts about directory service) directory service, still survives with significant usage, mainly because the original unwieldy protocol has been stripped away and effectively replaced with (additional info and facts about LDAP) LDAP. |
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