Conceptual interface specification The TCP/IP standards do not leave implementors without any guidance They specify a conceptual interface: a set of procedures and functions The conceptual interface defined by tcp/Ip standards does not specify data representations or programming details It merely provides an example of one possible interface that an OS can offer to application programs that use TCP/IP 哈工大计算机学院李全龙 Network Application Development Socket Programming 7哈工大计算机学院 李全龙 Network Application Development Socket Programming 7 Conceptual interface specification „ The TCP/IP standards do not leave implementors without any guidance. „ They specify a conceptual interface: a set of procedures and functions. „ The conceptual interface defined by TCP/IP standards does not specify data representations or programming details; „ It merely provides an example of one possible interface that an OS can offer to application programs that use TCP/IP