Position of OSI
Is OSI too late?

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Abstract

Despite a decade's work, it is readily demonstrated that OSI is not yet complete, and indeed probably never will be. The question arises whether it is too late to realise its major goals of universal service and improved competitivity. Due to the multiple facets of OSI, there is no general answer to this question. This paper sketches answers for a number of domains of application of OSI, and concludes that promoters of OSI should concentrate on areas in which OSI solutions have the greatest chance of being in time. Effort should not be wasted on applications for which there are well-established non-OSI open solutions.

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Brian E. Carpenter has been Group Leader of the Communications Systems group at CERN since 1985, following ten years' experience in software for process control systems at CERN, which was interrupted by three years teaching undergraduate computer science at Massey University in New Zealand. He holds a first degree in physics and a Ph.D. in computer science, and is an M.I.E.E.

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