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8 by the standardization of internet protocol version 6 ipv6 which uses 128 bit addresses ipv6 production implementations emerged in approximately 2006 transport layer edit the transport layer establishes data channels that applications use for task specific data exchange the layer establishes host to host connectivity in the form of end to end message transfer services that are independent of the underlying network and independent of the structure of user data and the logistics of exchanging information connectivity at the transport layer can be categorized as either connection oriented implemented in tcp or connectionless implemented in udp the protocols in this layer may provide error control segmentation flow control congestion control and application addressing port numbers for the purpose of providing process specific transmission channels for applications the layer establishes the concept of the network port this is a numbered logical construct allocated specifically for each of the communication channels an application needs for many types of services these port numbers have been standardized so that client computers may address specific services of a server computer without the involvement of service discovery or directory services because ip provides only best effort delivery some transport layer protocols offer reliability tcp is a connection oriented protocol that addresses numerous reliability issues in providing a reliable byte stream data arrives in order data has minimal error i e correctness duplicate data is discarded lost or discarded packets are resent includes traffic congestion control the newer stream control transmission protocol sctp is also a reliable connection oriented transport mechanism it is message stream oriented not byte stream oriented like tcp and provides multiple streams multiplexed over a single connection it also provides multihoming support in which a connection end can be represented by multiple ip addresses representing multiple physical interfaces such that if one fails the connection is not interrupted it was developed initially for telephony applications to transport ss7 over ip reliability can also be achieved by running ip over a reliable data link protocol such as the high level data link control hdlc the user datagram protocol udp is a connectionless datagram protocol like ip it is a best effort unreliable protocol reliability is addressed through error detection using a checksum algorithm udp is typically used for applications such as streaming media audio video voice over ip etc where on time arrival is more important than reliability or for simple query response applications like dns lookups where the overhead of setting up a reliable connection is disproportionately large real time transport protocol rtp is a datagram protocol that is used over udp and is designed for real time data such as streaming media the applications at any given network address are distinguished by their tcp or udp port by convention certain well known ports are associated with specific applications the tcp ip model s transport or host to host layer corresponds roughly to the fourth layer in the osi model also called the transport layer quic is rapidly emerging as an alternative transport protocol whilst it is technically carried via udp packets it seeks to offer enhanced transport connectivity relative to tcp http 3 works exclusively via quic application layer edit the application layer includes the protocols used by most applications for providing user services or exchanging application data over the network connections established by the lower level protocols this may include some basic network support services such as routing protocols and host configuration examples of application layer protocols include the hypertext transfer protocol http the file transfer protocol ftp the simple mail transfer protocol smtp and the dynamic host configuration protocol dhcp 64 data coded according to application layer protocols are encapsulated into transport layer protocol units such as tcp streams or udp datagrams which in turn use lower layer protocols to effect actual data transfer the tcp ip model does not consider the specifics of formatting and presenting data and does not define additional layers between the application and transport layers as in the osi model presentation and session layers according to the tcp ip model such functions are the realm of libraries and application programming interfaces the application layer in the tcp ip model is often compared to a combination of the fifth session sixth presentation and seventh application layers of the osi model application layer protocols are often associated with particular client server applications and common services have well known port numbers reserved by the internet assigned numbers authority iana for example the hypertext transfer protocol uses server port 80 and telnet uses server port 23 clients connecting to a service usually use ephemeral ports i e port numbers assigned only for the duration of the transaction at random or from a specific range configured in the application at the application layer the tcp ip model distinguishes between user protocols and support protocols 1 1 1 3 support protocols provide services to a system of network infrastructure user protocols are used for actual user applications for example ftp is a user protocol and dns is a support protocol although the applications are usually aware of key qualities of the transport layer connection such as the endpoint ip addresses and port numbers application layer protocols generally treat the transport layer and lower protocols as black boxes which provide a stable network connection across which to communicate the transport layer and lower level layers are unconcerned with the specifics of application layer protocols routers and switches do not typically examine the encapsulated traffic rather they just provide a conduit for it however some firewall and bandwidth throttling applications use deep packet inspection to interpret application data an example is the resource reservation protocol rsvp 65 it is also sometimes necessary for applications affected by nat to consider the application payload layering evolution and representations in the literature edit the internet protocol suite evolved through research and development funded over a period of time in this process the specifics of protocol components and their layering changed in addition parallel research and commercial interests from industry associations competed with design features in particular efforts in the international organization for standardization led to a similar goal but with a wider scope of networking in general efforts to consolidate the two principal schools of layering which were superficially similar but diverged sharply in detail led independent textbook authors to formulate abridging teaching tools the following table shows various such networking models the number of layers varies between three and seven arpanet reference model rfc 871 internet standard rfc 1122 internet model cisco academy 66 tcp ip 5 layer reference model kozierok 67 comer 68 tcp ip 5 layer reference model tanenbaum 69 tcp ip protocol suite or five layer internet model forouzan 70 kurose 71 tcp ip model stallings 72 osi model iso iec 7498 1 1994 73 three layers four layers four layers four one layers five layers five layers five layers seven layers application process application application application application application application application presentation session host to host transport transport transport transport transport host to host or transport transport internet internetwork internet internet network internet network network interface link network interface data link network interface data link data link network access data link n a n a n a hardware physical physical physical physical some of the networking models are from textbooks which are secondary sources that may conflict with the intent of rfc 1122 and other ietf primary sources 74 comparison of tcp ip and osi layering edit see also osi model comparison with tcp ip model the three top layers in the osi model i e the application layer the presentation layer and the session layer are not distinguished separately in the tcp ip model which only has an application layer above the transport layer while some pure osi protocol applications such as x 400 also combined them there is no requirement that a tcp ip protocol stack must impose a monolithic architecture above the transport layer for example the nfs application protocol runs over the external data representation xdr presentation protocol which in turn runs over a protocol called remote procedure call rpc rpc provides reliable record transmission so it can safely use the best effort udp transport different authors have interpreted the tcp ip model differently and disagree whether the link layer or any aspect of the tcp ip model covers osi layer 1 physical layer issues or whether tcp ip assumes a hardware layer exists below the link layer several authors have attempted to incorporate the osi model s layers 1 and 2 into the tcp ip model since these are commonly referred to in modern standards for example by ieee and itu this often results in a model with five layers where the link layer or network access layer is split into the osi model s layers 1 and 2 75 the ietf protocol development effort is not concerned with strict layering some of its protocols may not fit cleanly into the osi model although rfcs sometimes refer to it and often use the old osi layer numbers the ietf has repeatedly stated 54 failed verification that internet protocol and architecture development is not intended to be osi compliant rfc 3439 referring to the internet architecture contains a section entitled layering considered harmful 74 for example the session and presentation layers of the osi suite are considered to be included in the application layer of the tcp ip suite the functionality of the session layer can be found in protocols like http and smtp and is more evident in protocols like telnet and the session initiation protocol sip session layer functionality is also realized with the port numbering of the tcp and udp protocols which are included in the transport layer of the tcp ip suite functions of the presentation layer are realized in the tcp ip applications with the mime standard in data exchange another difference is in the treatment of routing protocols the osi routing protocol is is belongs to the network layer and does not depend on clns for delivering packets from one router to another but defines its own layer 3 encapsulation in contrast ospf rip bgp and other routing protocols defined by the ietf are transported over ip and for the purpose of sending and receiving routing protocol packets routers act as hosts as a consequence routing protocols are included in the application layer 36 some authors such as tanenbaum in computer networks describe routing protocols in the same layer as ip reasoning that routing protocols inform decisions made by the forwarding process of routers ietf protocols can be encapsulated recursively as demonstrated by tunnelling protocols such as generic routing encapsulation gre gre uses the same mechanism that osi uses for tunnelling at the network layer implementations edit this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed march 2014 learn how and when to remove this message the internet protocol suite is generally independent of a specific hardware or software environment it only requires the hardware and a software layer to exist capable of sending and receiving packets on a computer network as a result the suite has been implemented on essentially every computing platform a minimal implementation of tcp ip includes the following internet protocol ip address resolution protocol arp internet control message protocol icmp transmission control protocol tcp user datagram protocol udp and internet group management protocol igmp 76 in addition to ip icmp tcp udp internet protocol version 6 requires neighbor discovery protocol ndp icmpv6 and multicast listener discovery mld and is often accompanied by an integrated ipsec security layer see also edit bbn report 1822 an early layered network model fast local internet protocol internetwork packet exchange list of automation protocols list of information technology initialisms list of ip protocol numbers list of tcp and udp port numbers lists of network protocols timeline of the history of the internet notes edit the same idea had earlier been independently developed by donald davies who was the first to implement packet switching in the local area npl network 4 for records of discussions leading up to the tcp ip split see the series of internet 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