Protocol

A protocol is a set of formalized rules describing how to transmit data across a network, or within a computer. A software implementation is known as a .
==Description==
 protocols define the electrical and physical standards to be observed, bit- and byte-ordering and the transmission and of the bit stream. protocols deal with the data formatting, including the of messages, the terminal to computer dialog, , and sequencing of messages.. Accessed 1995-01-12.
==Examples==
*AppleTalk
*Ethernet
*FireWire
*TCP/IP
*USB
*Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)
==References==
==External links==
*ntpq: Network Time Protocol Query User's Manual at Apple Open Source
**The Network Time Protocol Version 4 Management Information Base (MIB) (2010-05-17)
* and at Wikipedia
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