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Came here looking for 7 layer model. It seems to be the only surviving legacy of OSI. From memory Computer Networks by Tanenbaum mapped every protocol into that
by shirro 13y ago
Came here looking for 7 layer model. It seems to be the only surviving legacy of OSI. From memory Computer Networks by Tanenbaum mapped every protocol into that damn model. Typical of committees to have 3 more layers than needed.
- bandy 13y agoX.500 was tried and deemed too complex/unworkable and has since been mostly abandoned. (Who remembers X.500 DNs leaking out as e-mail addresses some twenty years ago?) The idea of a directory service is a good one, so we ended up with LDAP and AD.