Re: Lost Layer?

Joe Touch <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:17:00 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.network.end2end
Message-ID <[email protected]>

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