Timeline for Disagree with what is on/off topic here? Join the discussion! Community feedback needed
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| Dec 16, 2018 at 11:09 | comment | added | vk5tu | If it helps, L2TP is Link Layer protocol. Just because L2TP is carried by a Transport Layer doesn't magically make it offer Session Layer services. A trickier issue is DNS, the naming application, which needs to be in scope despite other network applications (HTTP, SSH, etc) being excluded. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 3:25 | comment | added | Kevin | See also OpenFlow and other weird SDN stuff, which is already on-topic. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 2:07 | comment | added | Eddie | Agreed. Protocols above L4 in the OSI model is too ambiguous. Different folks categorize protocols at different layers of the OSI model. Some routinely ignore / avoid classifying anything strictly within one layer of the OSI model. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | jonathanjo | I am only suggesting we word it a little better than currently, which reads as if the off-topic list overrides the on-topic list. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 21:21 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | As far as BGP goes, that is a routing protocol, so it is on-topic based on: "design or theory of protocols used to operate a network (e.g. IP, TCP, routing protocols, STP, etc);" | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 20:10 | history | answered | jonathanjo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |