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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>protocol</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="proprietary.html" title="proprietary"/><link rel="next" href="provocative-maintenance.html" title="provocative maintenance"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">protocol</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="proprietary.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="provocative-maintenance.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="protocol"/><dt xmlns="" id="protocol"><b>protocol</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper
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form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one
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should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting; hackers don't care
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about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that
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allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each
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other without ambiguity. So, for example, it does include niceties about
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the proper form for addressing packets on a network or the order in which
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one should use the forks in the Dining Philosophers Problem. It implies
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that there is some common message format and an accepted set of primitives
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or commands that all parties involved understand, and that transactions
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among them follow predictable logical sequences. See also
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<a href="../H/handshaking.html"><i class="glossterm">handshaking</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/do-protocol.html"><i class="glossterm">do protocol</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="proprietary.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="provocative-maintenance.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">proprietary<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>provocative maintenance</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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