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Fun fact, the OSI network stack (which wound up losing out to TCP/IP) defined a 'presentation' layer which was meant to handle things like compression and encry
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Fun fact, the OSI network stack (which wound up losing out to TCP/IP) defined a 'presentation' layer which was meant to handle things like compression and encryption in a way that was transparent to the application logic 'above' it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
- tptacek 9y agoAn architectural counterpoint would be David Clark's Application Layer Framing paper: https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs7260_spring/papers/alf.pdf https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs7260_spring/paper...