[Xml-bin] An attempt to sort things out

Al Snell alaric@alaric-snell.com
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:46:54 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Stefan Zier wrote:

> Yup, I'm familiar with ISO/OSI, it actually gave me the idea for this model.
> The basic idea behind ISO/OSI (amongt many other layer models) is to slice
> things things up in layers in order to understand them - divide and conquer
> so to say. But unlike the ISO/OSI model, the layers here are not layers of
> communication protocols but rather layers of data representations.

Ah, but communications protocols are just an application of data
representation, adding more data at each layer :-)

ABS

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