Re: Lost Layer?
Joe Touch <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:17:00 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.end2end |
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On 2/11/2014 12:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > says Joe: >> I have no idea what a 'network' layer is that is different from what we >> currently call the link layer. > > RFC3819/BCP 89, which Joe wrote, calls ATM stuff etc. "subnetworks". > > Which is to say, Joe wasn't calling them link layers then. The abstract explains that "subnetwork" is RFC-speak for the link layer: This document provides advice to the designers of digital communication equipment, link-layer protocols, and packet-switched local networks (collectively referred to as subnetworks)... Joe