DoD Standard Internet Protocol,

Abstract

The Internet Protocol is designed for use in interconnected systems of packet-switched computer communication networks. Such as system has been called a 'catenet'. The internet protocol provides for transmitting blocks of data called datagrams from sources to destinations, where sources and destinations are hosts identified by fixed length addresses. The internet protocol also provides for fragmentation and reassembly of long datagrams, if necessary, for transmission through 'small packet' networks. This document is based on five earlier editions of the ARPA Internet Protocol Specification, and the present text draws heavily from them. There have been many contributors to this work both in terms of concepts and in terms of text. This edition revises the details security, compartmentation, and precedence features of the internet protocol. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA079730

Entities

People

  • Jon Postel

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Application Software
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Data Rate
  • Fragmentation
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Identification
  • Internet
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Specifications
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Library and Information Science