A layered networking protocol designed to minimize complexity
Bill Hays, Larry C. Christensen, Gordon E. Stokes, Randy Stokes · 1988
The design of a networking protocol for the use in connecting heterogeneous computer systems is presented. The design describes a protocol based on a layered philosophy and provides for a minimum cost connections between the computer system in the network. For each layer of the network the design choices used in the network protocol are presented and a simple file transfer mechanism and message passing facility are presented with their interfaces to the network.