The expressive power of the Internet design

The present Internet is not defined in terms of its semantics, at least at the packet level. The loose packet carriage model of “what comes out is what went in” is intentionally almost semantics-free. The packets just carry bytes. Packet boundaries can have some limited semantics, but not much. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, David D.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141690