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Subject:Re: Need some grammar help From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, "Anne B. Cornwell" <cornwell -dot- ab -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:27:51 -0500
On 11/14/2010 05:41 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:
>> The packets are put into little electronic envelopes, each one
>> bearing a Web address, and handed over to the Internet protocol, the IP part
> Not just lame, appalling.
>
> "web address"? The correct term is IP address.
>
> "Packets are put into little electronic envelopes." Spare me! Data is put
> into packets, which have a header (a bit like the address on an envelope)
> for address and port information.
See RFCs 1149 and 2549, in which it is proven that the little envelopes
need not be electronic for certain instances of OSI's Physical Layer.
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