On Sat, 13 May 2000, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> > I have a question for somebody: If how the node communicates is the 
> > protocol,
> > and if the format of the messages is the transport, then what should the
> > underlying protocol used ("tcp", but could be anything) to it be called?
> Thats probably my bad.  How the node communicates is the protocol, the
> format of the messages is just a serialization, format, or payload (I'm
> sure there are other, better terms).  The underlying protocol, the thing
> that phsycially moves bytes, is the transport.

Ah, but the key exchange and encryption are pretty clearly not part of the
serialization. I think it looks like we need to invent a word. 

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