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From: cbbro...@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
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Subject: Re: corba or sockets?
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In our last episode (31 Oct 2000 18:36:55 +0000),
the artist formerly known as Erik Naggum said:
>* Wade Humeniuk <humen...@cadvision.com>
>| They are fine protocols, but only as transport and network layer
>| protocols.
>
> What does this mean?  It makes absolutely no sense at it stands.

The point is that they're not directly "application" layer protocols.

A good comparison seems to me to be that they generally represent the
"assembly language" of the networking world.

TCP/IP does indicate that it includes "application" layers that
provide _some_ of the higher level stuff; you have made some
desparaging remarks about recent RFCs that would go along with the
notion of separating "application layers" from the remainder of it...

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