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A "single universal protocol" sounds to me like you'd need at a minimum, a blob of data, with a header for length and how to interpret the data. Maybe if you fl
by bobbiechen 7y ago
A "single universal protocol" sounds to me like you'd need at a minimum, a blob of data, with a header for length and how to interpret the data. Maybe if you flesh out the problem more you'd end up with something like this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#section-3.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#section-3.1
What would it even mean to have a single universal protocol beyond IP? Layering on top of IP (TCP, UDP, and higher-level protocols like HTTP, DNS) is the way things already work. Not layering sounds like every application would just invent and parse their own protocols, which is even worse.