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Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.

• stkdump 6mo ago
  So what exactly does he mean then?
  • wmf 6mo ago
    He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).
    • p_l 6mo ago
      And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP
    • opan 6mo ago
      The OSI model still gets taught in networking classes to people in their teens and 20s.
      • justin66 6mo ago
        That was baffling a quarter of a century ago and it's even more baffling now.
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