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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TCP/IP</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TCB.html" title="TCB"/><link rel="next" href="TECO.html" title="TECO"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TCP/IP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCB.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TECO.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TCP-IP"/><dt xmlns="" id="TCP-IP"><b>TCP/IP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/T´C·P I´P/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The
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wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work, and the only
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one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching.
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Unlike such allegedly ‘standard’ competitors such as X.25,
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DECnet, and the ISO 7-layer stack, TCP/IP evolved primarily by actually
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being <span class="emphasis"><em>used</em></span>, rather than being handed down from on high
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by a vendor or a heavily-politicized standards committee. Consequently, it
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(a) works, (b) actually promotes cheap cross-platform connectivity, and (c)
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annoys the hell out of corporate and governmental empire-builders
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everywhere. Hackers value all three of these properties. See
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<a href="../C/creationism.html"><i class="glossterm">creationism</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] Formerly expanded as “<span class="quote">The Crap Phil
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Is Pushing</span>”. The reference is to Phil Karn, KA9Q, and the context
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was an ongoing technical/political war between the majority of sites still
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running AX.25 and the TCP/IP relays. TCP/IP won.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCB.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TECO.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TCB </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TECO</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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