Oskar Sandberg <md98-osa at nada.kth.se> wrote:
> 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.
If I remember my ISO model correctly, it should be:
Application Freenet protocol
Presentation Encryption, serialization
Session unused
Transport TCP
Network IP
Datalink don't care
Physical ...
theo
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