Layer 8 - Similar Pseudo-layers in The TCP/IP Model

Similar Pseudo-layers in The TCP/IP Model

In the TCP/IP model, the 4-layer model of the Internet, the 5th layer is analogously sometimes described as the political layer (and the 6th as the religious layer). This appears in RFC 2321, which is a humorous April Fools' Day RFC published in 1998.

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