The Elements of Networking Style and Other Essays and Animadversions on the Art of Intercomputer Networking

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The World's Only Known Constructively Snotty Computer Science Book: historically, its polemics for TCP/IP and against the international standardsmongers' "OSI" helped the Internet happen; currently, its principles of technoaesthetic criticism are still eminently applicable to the States of most (probably all) technical Arts -- all this and Cover Cartoons, too...but it's not for those who can't deal with real sentences....
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  • ISBN-13: 9780132681292
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
  • Publication date: 1/1/1985
  • Pages: 236

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1 On Style and Style 1
Chapter 2 What the Windmill Looks Like Up Close 18
Chapter 3 The Elements of Networking Style 58
Chapter 4 A Perspective on Intercomputer Networking 69
Chapter 5 A Perspective on the ARPANET Reference Model 89
Chapter 6 The Host-Front End Protocol Approach 116
Chapter 7 Slaying the "TCP-on-a-LAN" Woozle 132
Chapter 8 The Illusion of Vendor Support 144
Chapter 9 Low Standards: A Critique of X.25 153
Chapter 10 Gateways, Architectures, and Heffalumps 167
Chapter 11 An Architecture for Secure Packet-Switched Networks 177
Appendix 1 Two Introductions That Were Too Good to Go to Waste 190
Standards Threat or Menace 190
A Perspective on the ARPANET Reference Model 194
Appendix 2 The Arouet Papers 196
Empirical Heresy Considered Threatening 196
ISORM Considered Insidious 197
Standards Committeemen Considered Dangerous 199
An Alternative Encoding of "42," or The Ultimate Answer 201
Appendix 3 The Self-Framed Slogans Suitable for Mounting 204
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