On 2/10/2013 6:04 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
You should read "TCP/IP" as "Internet Protocols" (notice plural form here). It points to the stack of protocols,
Actually, no. IP is Internet Protocol, singular, and is the L3 (mostly - IP predates the ISO/OSI model layers, so IP suite protocols don't map exactly) protocol upon which both TCP and UDP are built. It's defined by RFC 791.
TCP/IP, simply because those are the most commonly used protocols in the suite.
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