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OSI alone would give you 7 stacks
by sva_ 4y ago
OSI alone would give you 7 stacks
- samstave 4y agoTrue, but when learning OSI in 90s - they were always refered to as 'layers' of the same protocol. Stacks where completely stand-alone applications connected which were not layers of the same protocol/system. I think that the simple way is to refer to them as stacks now, but if you were raised on LAYERS - refering to OSI as 'stacks' feels foreign. It appearsthat as we atomoze / containerize various teck, we now thing of them as 'stacks' rather than layers. It seems that 'layers' are now 'services' rather.
- swyx 4y agoarent many of the OSI layers effectively collapsed? eg TCP/IP has like 90% market share compared to alternatives and effectively function as a single layer. im not sure about the DNS layer but i think theres a case to be made there too