> >
> > For networking people, the application has always been "the
> bit of software
> > that sits at the next layer up from me". I remember OSI
> folks talking about
> > file transfer and terminal emulation as applications!
>
> This is exactly how XML and SGML people use the word application also!
>
> But in this case there is a basically fixed definition, not a relative
> one:
>
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gorry/course/intro-pages/osi.html
>
Eh? That does what OSI has always done, it defines the application layer as
the layer concerned with provided services to the application. How can you
call that a definition?
Michael Kay
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