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% In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Henning G. Schulzrinne" writes
% :
% >I've been approached regarding the use of the (claimed-to-be)
% >trademarked term bake-off. It would be helpful if somebody can provide
% >credible evidence that this term has been used within the technical
% >community for many years. (In case you didn't know,
% >http://www.bakeoff.com/ shows the non-technical use....)
%
% It's used in RFC 1371, from October 1992. Of course, that RFC also
% says:
%
% The IAB/IETF are committed to a timely introduction of OSI into the
% Internet.
%
% Anyway -- I seem to recall seeing the term in "TCP/IP Protocol
% Transition Handbook", from circa 193, but my copy isn't conveniently
% accessible at the moment.
%
% --Steve Bellovin
Interop was Dan Lynches venue for TCP/IP bakeoffs in the 1980's.
(thats why we have only three IETFs... :)
--bill