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by KirillPanov 973 days ago
> Where they differ is that Ethernet was designed to a be a local network, whereas the Internet is designed to be an internetwork.

Then your criticism of the first three OSI layers is merely that they should be named "point-to-point", "local", and "inter".

I can agree with that criticism. But I can't agree with needing 239 pages to convey it.