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protocol
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n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form
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for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should
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use the forks in a Russian-style place setting; hackers don't care about
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such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow
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different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other
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without ambiguity. So, for example, it does include niceties about the
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proper form for addressing packets on a network or the order in which one
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should use the forks in the Dining Philosophers Problem. It implies that
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there is some common message format and an accepted set of primitives or
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commands that all parties involved understand, and that transactions among
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them follow predictable logical sequences. See also handshaking , do
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protocol.
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