> something that comes from consensus from a big, top-down standardisation body usually fails.
So IETF is the "big, top-down standardisation body" producing "bloated, inefficient and largely unused standards" here?
Wouldn't be the first time someone characterized it as such.
> The internet is an example of the implementation of a top-down approach when a scientist submits a paper for an RFC and iterates on it until it's de-facto protocol of the internet.
Yeah, he must be talking about the IETF. Very consensus-driven, most participants funded by vendors, difficult to iterate after RFC approval.
> While their nimbler competition is being adopted, iterated, and expanded. In the internet protocol use cases, OSI Model is now essentially just a theory taught in networking training, certification, and classes. In the real world, the internet is TCP/IP, and it's TCP IP that runs on computers, phones, and other devices.
Now I'm confused. TCP/IP are literally defined by IETF RFCs.
Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.
He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).
Yes, which the article claims is just a theory now, irrelevant for the real world. More crucially though, http3 doesn't use TCP because it is built on top of UDP.
> something that comes from consensus from a big, top-down standardisation body usually fails.
So IETF is the "big, top-down standardisation body" producing "bloated, inefficient and largely unused standards" here?
Wouldn't be the first time someone characterized it as such.
> The internet is an example of the implementation of a top-down approach when a scientist submits a paper for an RFC and iterates on it until it's de-facto protocol of the internet.
Yeah, he must be talking about the IETF. Very consensus-driven, most participants funded by vendors, difficult to iterate after RFC approval.
> While their nimbler competition is being adopted, iterated, and expanded. In the internet protocol use cases, OSI Model is now essentially just a theory taught in networking training, certification, and classes. In the real world, the internet is TCP/IP, and it's TCP IP that runs on computers, phones, and other devices.
Now I'm confused. TCP/IP are literally defined by IETF RFCs.
Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.
So what exactly does he mean then?
He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).
The OSI model still gets taught in networking classes to people in their teens and 20s.
And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP
http3 operates on a different OSI layer
Yes, which the article claims is just a theory now, irrelevant for the real world. More crucially though, http3 doesn't use TCP because it is built on top of UDP.
It's like how people say "pass me the butter" despite there's just a tub of margarine on the table.