[wmf]

Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.

[stkdump]

So what exactly does he mean then?

[wmf]

He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).

[opan]

The OSI model still gets taught in networking classes to people in their teens and 20s.

[justin66]

That was baffling a quarter of a century ago and it's even more baffling now.

[p_l]

And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP