The importance of protocols and standards

More recently, the Department of Defense issued a MILSPEC definition of TCP/IP. This was intended to be a more formal definition, appropriate for use in purchasing specifications. However most of the TCP/IP community continues to use the Internet standards.
- The arbitration will be governed by the American Arbitration Association’s Consumer Arbitration Rules , as modified by these Product Terms, and will be administered by the AAA.
- Users can send messages from any of them to any other, except where there are security or other policy restrictions on access.
- For applications like this, there are alternatives to TCP.
The description above indicated that the IP implementation is responsible for getting datagrams to the destination indicated by the destination address, but little was said about how this would be done. The task of finding how to get a datagram to its destination is referred to as “routing”. In fact many of the … Read More