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The Protocol Wars were a long-running debate in computer science that occurred from the 1970s to the 1990s, when engineers, organizations and nations became polarized over the issue of which communication protocol would result in the best and most robust networks. This culminated in the Internet–OSI Standards War in the 1980s and early 1990s, which was ultimately "won" by the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) by the mid-1990s when it became the dominant protocol suite through rapid adoption of the Internet. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Protocol WarsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The roles of technology and Kyoto Protocol in energy transition towards COP26 targets: Evidence from the novel GMM-PVAR approach for G-7 countriesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Geneva protocolThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Truce in protocol warsCited 4 times
- Go sideways: CYCLADESA closely related topic
- Go sideways: IEEE Internet AwardA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Truce in protocol wars
HOK wins the protocol wars: Corporate architecture, network infrastructure, and the global city
🆕 Influential since 2022
The roles of technology and Kyoto Protocol in energy transition towards COP26 targets: Evidence from the novel GMM-PVAR approach for G-7 countries
A Q -Learning-Based Topology-Aware Routing Protocol for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
OCHSA: Designing Energy-Efficient Lifetime-Aware Leisure Degree Adaptive Routing Protocol with Optimal Cluster Head Selection for 5G Communication Network Disaster Management
Diplomacy and Ritual Violence in Renaissance Rome: Protocol Conflicts of the Spanish Ambassador during the Italian Wars (1494–1512)
📚 Books worth reading
The Geneva protocolDavid Hunter Miller · 1786- 📕Köln im Dreissigjährigen KriegChristian Bartz · 2005
- 📕Plans and protocols to end warShotwell, James Thomson · 1925
Star WarsSimon Beecroft · 2009- 📕Papers of the President's Soviet Lend Lease Protocol CommitteeRobert Lester · 2006
- 📕The Geneva protocol of 1925United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations · 1972
Adequacy of the VA Persian Gulf Registry and Uniform Case Assessment ProtocolInstitute of Medicine Staff · 1998
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