Patterns in Network Architecture

Chapter 7. The Network IPC Model

I am far from thinking that nomenclature is a remedy for every defect in art or science: still I cannot but feel that confusion of terms generally springs from, and always leads to, confusion of ideas.

—John Louis Petit, Architectural Studies in France, 1854^[1]

^[1] Noel Chiappa found this one, too!

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

—Charles Kettering

Introduction

Now that we have concluded that networking is best modeled as a single repeating layer and reviewed some of the results we have arrived at over the past 30 years, we can construct the elements of a general model of networking, a Platonic ideal, that we can use both to analyze our previous work and to use as a guide going forward. Over ...