platforms, from urban street grids to Google, and so to consider their common operations, some abstraction is necessary. Part of their alterity to normal public and private operations is the apparently paradoxical way that they standardize …system that would support discrete circuits between one sender and receiver, like older telephony networks, versus many computing companies, such as IBM, which lobbied hard for packet switching technologies that could treat all messages (e.…Both OSI and TCP/IP are packet switching models, but for better or worse, the seven-layer OSI model that Bachmann described never really took off. The simplified TCP/IP four-layer model described by Cerf’s group did get traction, and based …
Vint Cerf
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Vint Cerf is a foundational figure in internet architecture history, credited with developing the TCP/IP protocol model that became the basis for the modern internet rather than the competing seven-layer OSI standard. The readings use him to illustrate how technical standardization choices—in this case a simplified four-layer model over a more complex alternative—became infrastructural lock-ins that shaped everything from platform operations to the standardization of all message types (voice, data, image) into recombinant digital units. This genealogy matters for the course because it shows how early cybernetic and informational decisions about protocol design constrain and enable subsequent possibilities for architecture, governance, and artistic practice.
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