This quote sums up the point: "The goal of these Wikipedia-style ontological frameworks is to describe theory, like science. But for the most part, networking

This quote sums up the point: "The goal of these Wikipedia-style ontological frameworks is to describe theory, like science. But for the most part, networking is practice. It reflects engineering choices rather than scientific principles. It’s less like a biological taxonomy and more like a military hierarchy: we humans chose to put things there. It’s a struggle choosing pure theory vs. practice. Are we describing the TCP/IP Internet that we are all using today? Or are we trying to describe theory, how networks have existed in the past and how they might exist in the future? The OSI Model pretends its theory because it’s the standard. The idea is that there would be 7 fixed layers and that over time, new standards would be invented that would upgrade a layer. All networks of the future would follow this blueprint, so it described all future networks. "