Editing Packet Switch Stream (section)

=== Communication protocols ===
Researchers on EPSS in the UK and elsewhere identified the need for defining higher-level protocols.<ref>{{harvnb|Davies|Bressan|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=DN-t8MpZ0-wC&pg=PA2 2–3]}}</ref> The UK [[National Computing Centre]] publication 'Why Distributed Computing', which was based on extensive research into future potential configurations for computer systems.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Down |first1=Peter John |title=Why Distributed Computing?: An NCC Review of Potential and Experience in the UK |last2=Taylor |first2=Frank Edward |date=1976 |publisher=NCC Publications |isbn=978-0-85012-170-4}}{{page needed|date=September 2023}}</ref> This resulted in the UK presenting the case for an international standards committee to cover this area at the ISO meeting in Sydney in March 1977.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Radu |first1=Roxana |title=Negotiating Internet Governance |date=2019 |isbn=978-0-19-883307-9 |pages=43–C3.N23 |chapter=Revisiting the Origins: The Internet and its Early Governance |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198833079.003.0003}}</ref><ref name="ieee2017032">{{harvnb|Russell|2013}}</ref> This work led to the [[OSI reference model]] in 1984 and the subsequent [[Internet-OSI Standards War]].<ref name="Abbate00p176">{{harvnb|Abbate|2000|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=E2BdY6WQo4AC&pg=PA176 176-180]}}</ref><ref name="ieee2017032">{{harvnb|Russell|2013}}</ref>