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This is not my understanding of the word "syntax". Indeed, if you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Illustrated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Ill
by javajosh 8y ago
This is not my understanding of the word "syntax". Indeed, if you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Illustrated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Illustrated you'll not see the word "syntax" used to describe the protocol layout. So, basically I agree that the word is misused in the post. I think "layout" might work better.
- cryptonector 8y agoIt's one of those words whose meanings in the industry vary a fair bit contextually. So, for example, ASN.1 defines syntax for expressing schemas (ITU-T x.680 and others in the x.68x series), and also encoding rules (x.690 and others in the x.69x series). XDR is one standard for both, syntax and encoding. In HTTP land syntax is used to refer to encoding. In HTTP/1.x, because the protocol is textual and specified in ABNF, syntax can refer to both things equally well. In HTTP/{2,3} this is no longer the case but it doesn't matter, we continue to use "syntax" to refer to the encoding.