16 Facts About Communication protocols

An alternate formulation states that protocols are to communication what algorithms are to computation.

Multiple protocols often describe different aspects of a single communication.

Internet communication protocols are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Immediate human readability stands in contrast to binary Communication protocols which have inherent benefits for use in a computer environment.

One method very common with Internet Communication protocols is a text oriented representation that transmits requests and responses as lines of ASCII text, terminated by a newline character.

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Text-based Communication protocols are typically optimized for human parsing and interpretation, and are therefore suitable whenever human inspection of protocol contents is required, such as during debugging and during early protocol development design phases.

The “Text” based Communication protocols mentioned here use only binary content, which is made “humanly readable” by a text editor.

Binary Communication protocols are intended to be read by a machine rather than a human being.

Binary Communication protocols have the advantage of terseness, which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation.

The design of complex Communication protocols often involves decomposition into simpler, cooperating Communication protocols.

Such a set of cooperating Communication protocols is sometimes called a protocol family or a protocol suite, within a conceptual framework.

Internet Communication protocols are designed for simplicity and modularity and fit into a coarse hierarchy of functional layers defined in the Internet Protocol Suite.

Layering provides opportunities to exchange technologies when needed, for example, Communication protocols are often stacked in a tunneling arrangement to accommodate the connection of dissimilar networks.

Computations deal with algorithms and data; Communication involves protocols and messages; So the analog of a data flow diagram is some kind of message flow diagram.

Software supporting Communication protocols has a layered organization and its relationship with protocol layering is shown in figure 5.

Some standards organizations of relevance for communication protocols are the International Organization for Standardization, the International Telecommunication Union, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.