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==External links==
* Andrew L. Russell, [https://courses.cs.duke.edu//common/compsci092/papers/govern/consensus.pdf ''‘Rough Consensus and Running Code’ and the Internet-OSI Standards War''], [[Annals of the History of Computing]], Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 48-61, July–September 2006


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Latest revision as of 15:19, 16 April 2025

A protocol suite (or protocol family; the term protocol stack, from the layered assemblage, can be seen, but this can also mean 'the collection of software which implements a particular protocol family') is a set of communication protocols which are intended to work together, as a hierarchy of components, to produce the desired overall functionality.

An example is the TCP/IP family, which includes application protocols such as HTTP (the protocol used by the Web), and underneath them the reliable byte stream protocol TCP, which in turn depends on the un-reliable datagram carriage protocol IP.

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