Re: Port numbers in the network layer?

[email protected] (Noel Chiappa) Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:05:31 -0400 (EDT)

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    > From: Bob Braden <[email protected]>

    > Has anyone ever thought through how the architecture would have been
    > changed had ports ended up in the internetwork layer

There were certainly people who did this (XNS - and, IIRC, PUP too).

I think there are decent (i.e. not earthshaking) arguments both ways, and I
also honestly don't think it really makes that much difference which way one
goes!

	Noel