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The Internet Protocol enables each computer on the Internet to communicate
with
other computers through the exchange of packets
of digital information. There are also eight higher level protocols that run on
top of the Internet Protocol, and provide additional functionality for different
applications. These nine fundamental Internet protocols are listed below, together
with the RFC's that describe them.
Protocol
|
Acronym
|
Purpose
|
RFC
|
Internet
Protocol
|
IP
|
Physical
network
|
RFC-791
|
Internet
Control Message Protocol
|
ICMP
|
Status
messaging
|
RFC-792
|
Transmission
Control Protocol
|
TCP
|
Guaranteed
delivery
|
RFC-793
|
User Datagram
Protocol
|
UDP
|
Coordination,
Audio
|
RFC-768
|
Telnet
Protocol
|
TELNET
|
Remote
login
|
RFC-764
|
File Transfer
Protocol
|
FTP
|
Network
utility
|
RFC-765
|
Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol
|
SMTP
|
Email
|
RFC-788
|
Network
News Transfer Protocol
|
NNTP
|
Usenet
|
RFC-977
|
Hypertext
Transfer Protocol
|
HTTP
|
Web
|
RFC-2068
|
|