here's a fine referenice for the OSI reference model: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/OSI_Layers.asp The ILP project lives entirely in layer 7. Specific implementations would be constrained to specific choices in the lower levels, but I don't think ILP should care if the data is in ASCII or EBCDIC -- which is contrived, as all right-thinking protocols have demanded Unicode UTF8 for some years now. But still it shouldn't matter. And likewise for if messages are JSON-LD or Bencoded. Shouldn't matter. All the communications are over reliable bi-directional streams. That might fail at any time for any reason, but when they aren't failing they're reliable bi-directional streams. if the failure is "NETWORK TIMEOUT" or some other kind of failure, that doesn't matter, it's a failure of a stream. Which is too detailed, a failure of a stream implies a failure of a message, which as a semantic thing is composed of key/value or index/value associations, regardless of encoding or wire-protocols. In the language of that reference, ILP's internal layers (atop semantic messages between peers) would be "tiers" in a "tiered application architecture." okay that's my two cents. > Look forward to your thoughts! >
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