[Old-standards] Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

[stanislav shalunov]

William Allen Simpson <wsimpson at greendragon.com> writes:

>   RFC1598       PPP in X.25
>   RFC1618       PPP over ISDN
> 
> At one time, these were incredibly important in the 3rd world, and
> some parts of Europe and Japan. Is X.25 completely non-existant
> today?  Heck, folks were running X.25 over ISDN D-channels, and
> those still exist on every PRI circuit....

For what it's worth, the AX.25 protocol number in IPv4 is still used
by some poor souls.  (Carries just about 3MB/day on the Abilene
backbone and used to be several times more.)

http://netflow.internet2.edu/weekly/longit/protocols93-octets.png

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Stanislav Shalunov		http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/

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