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Yeah, it really sucks that the developers of TCP didn't foresee these issues in 1981 when they first designed it. I can't believe they were so short-sighted.
by spc476 8y ago
Yeah, it really sucks that the developers of TCP didn't foresee these issues in 1981 when they first designed it. I can't believe they were so short-sighted.
Okay, enough with the sarcasm. Is it too much to ask for historical perspective in protocol design?
- rswail 8y agoAgreed, as well as the "Oh why didn't the Berkley people implement the OSI 7 layer model, then TCP would have been layered over UDP". The reason that TCP beat out all the other protocols is because it didn't "layer" everything. OSI was beautiful in the abstract, but a complete cluster-fuck in the implementation. Now we have enough processing power that the abstract layering makes more sense. But where the layers interact with cross-layer requirements like security was never actually dealt with in the OSI days.
- anticensor 8y agoOSI was a compromise between SNA and ARPA protocol stacks.