[Air-l] Info request re "layers" model of Internet

[Charles Baldwin]

I think the original post by B. Lentz is asking for the defining paper for the internet layers. The question is whether you want TCP/IP model, which is 5 layers and sometimes called the DoD model, or if you want the more recent OSI 7 layer model, or some other layer definition (don't more recent IETF developments alter/supersede the layer model?). 

As I understand it, the 5-layer TCP/IP model is defined in the early 1970's at ARPA. I think the "origin" may be the following text:

Cerf, V., and R. Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network  Intercommunication", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-22, No. 5, pp 637-648, May 1974.

Certainly Vint Cerf was the co-author. I would start there.

As to OSI, I would look here: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/50_journals/pdf/RightsManagement_eid=136833.pdf

- Sandy Baldwin


>>> "Lokman Tsui" <lokman.tsui at gmail.com> 06/15/07 5:31 PM >>>
Not sure whether you were referring to this, but Yochai Benkler also referenced
a model of layers to explain the architecture of the internet.
Different from the OSI layer model, he instead talks about a Physical,
Logical and Content layer.

See http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=11._The_Battle_Over_the_Institutional_Ecology_of_the_Digital_Environment 

Cheers,
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On 6/15/07, RGL <rgmagnolia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm trying to research the actual origin paper for the layers model.
> Was it Francois Barr or other scholar's contribution as a concept?
> Many thanks,
> B. Lentz (Visiting Scholar, NYU)
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