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This is funny Under: 7.1.2. Poorly understood terminology >This is what happened with “session”. When OSI named this layer, it had nothing to do with sessions
by de6u99er 3y ago
This is funny
Under: 7.1.2. Poorly understood terminology
>This is what happened with “session”. When OSI named this layer, it had nothing to do with sessions in general, but with very specific issues connecting a terminal to a mainframe.
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What we think of as sessions (as in HTTP) are actually called associations in OSI, and is assigned to the Application Layer #7.
- robertgraham 3y agoElsewhere in the text I describe how OSI chose a word at random, that they never meant by it what we now call "sessions". It could've been 'dialog layer' or 'interaction layer". I recommend they should've chosen "Intercourse Layer".