On 6/21/12 9:16 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
On 6/21/12 20:57 , Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
On 6/22/12, Randy Bush<randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com> wrote:
All protocols in IETF are based on the Internet or/and the IP.
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5921
I dunno - once you throw "based on the Internet" in there pretty
much anything goes. Which is not to say that I think his definition
of "protocol" is helpful, since it does not appear to actually *be*
a definition.
But anyway, I was surprised by some of things for which I haven't
been able to find a definition in IETF documents - for example,
"state," although that's an extremely difficult term for which to do
an exhaustive search and it's very likely out there but hard to find.
Melinda