3.1. Introducing TCP/IP
Because TCP/IP is so central to working with the Internet and with intranets, you should understand it in detail. We'll start with some background on TCP/IP and how it came about and then move on to the descriptions of the technical goals defined by the original designers. Then you'll get a look at how TCP/IP compares to a theoretical model, the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.
3.1.1. A Brief History of TCP/IP
The first Request for Comments (RFC) was published in April 1969, laying the groundwork for today's Internet, the protocols of which are specified in the numerous RFCs monitored, ratified, and archived by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). TCP/IP was first proposed in 1973 and was split into separate ...
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