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RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard)....
email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines.
Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}....
iff v.,n. 1. To watch IP packets traversing a local network.
Most often in the phrase `packet sniffer', a program for doing same. 2.Synonym for poll....
All the world's a net! And all the data in it merely packets come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are heard no more.
'Tis a network waiting to be switched! -- Vint Cerf...
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protocol n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....
protocol: n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....