[nzgrover]

Since noone else has posted it, I will: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5...

The OSI Deprogrammer

[great_wubwub]

I hate the OSI model too, but a 240-page book with 137 references? To complain that a model from the 80s isn't the right fit 40 years later? This isn't a paper, it's a rant.

[orbital-decay]

It's not much of a rant. About half of the actual content is the suggestion of alternatives, and about a third is just historic reference on OSI.

[mattxxx]

^ This.

Before seeing this here, I went down a rabbit hole on why-anyone-cares about the OSI model, especially as a descriptor for their golang project. It seems to be just a classification that one person found useful, and people treat like an interesting thing.

Separately, we need more deprogrammers in the world.

[Diti]

THANK YOU! I have never understood everybody’s fascination with the OSI’s approximative model, but I could never rationalize why. Great read!