Talk:Protocol (computing)

Please comment at Talk:Communications protocol#Confusingly similar articles.

The TCP/IP layer names are not a subset of the OSI layer names...--69.133.205.118 22:01, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just general lack of information

A lot more could be added here, I came here for reference of a lot of information about Computer Protocol that I once knew and have now forgotten.

the other reference model

The article currently claims that "The OSI model is not the only reference model however."

What other reference model?

I wish the article said

The other reference model is called "".

-- but of course, filled in with the actual name of that other reference model(s).

(The article mentions a "The Internet model". But it links those words to the Internet protocol suite, which, as far as I can tell, is not a reference model for protocols, but a collection of actual protocols.)

--65.70.89.241 13:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Combine with Communications Protocols

There is no difference between a Protocol (Computing) and a Communications Protocol. The fields of computing and communications overlap in the area of protocols; computers need protocols to communicate and communications network need computing (hardware and/or software) to carry out the procedure for communicating. You could say that this wasn't the case when mechanical switches were in use for telephony, but if a slide rule can be called a computer then so can a mechanical switch. Ngriffeth 11:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]