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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by mindslight on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#16578012)
"The Web" is commonly understood to be HTTP on top of DNS. These are centralized protocols, in that each resource name entirely depends on a single entity to serve/steward that resource.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by paxy on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:24PM (#16578961)
HTTP on top of TCP, with DNS (also on TCP/UDP) used for resolving domain names.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by mindslight on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:27PM (#16578993)
TCP isn't involved in naming; HTTP and DNS (or worse, IP) are.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by khedoros1 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:58PM (#16579238)
All they were saying is that TCP and UDP are the transport protocols that DNS uses, not that they're directly involved in name resolution.
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