> ... > In practice, the 7 layer model was not an implementation recipe - TCP/IP > in the broader Internet sense showed that engineering required working > with the tech of the time, not the abstractions from some CS class or > government contract sales team. TCP in the narrow sense shows it again > - sticking TCP in layer 4 and stopping there doesn't work - it claims > everything is a stream, when 'everything is a datagram' is closer to the > truth, and a more useful assumption. TCP further assumes it can > reliably deliver data, when actually it's only reliable enough if you > care only enough to do the demo. > ...
I don't know what to think of the following, but it may be germane: http://rina.tssg.org/docs/JohnDay-LostLayer120306.pdf --dan _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
