From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Jorgen Grahn  wrote:   
      
   (snip, I wrote)   
   >> (snip)   
      
   >> As opposed to TCP carried by some other lower level protocol?   
   >> Maybe TCP/DDP?   
      
   > "TCP/IP" usually stands for "IP and the various protocols on top of   
   > it" rather than TCP in particular -- see e.g. the name of this   
   > newsgroup!   
      
   Yes, and I always note when someone mentions TCP/IP in the context   
   of UDP. The assumption is that you always have to implement TCP,   
   but that isn't true.   
      
   If it has to fit in a small ROM (such as diskless booting) or in   
   hardware (FPGA) then UDP is much easier.   
      
   There could be TCP over other layer 3 (network) protocols, though   
   I don't know of any. But I do like mentioning protocols, including   
   the lower level, such as NFS/UDP and NFS/TCP with a slash separator.   
   I suppose it could be NFS/UDP/IP. In some cases, one might need to   
   distinguish the layer 2 protocol, TCP/IP/etherent or TCP/IP/tokenring.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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