1.1 The Internet Architecture

General background and discussion on the Internet architecture and supporting protocol suite can be found in the DDN Protocol Handbook [INTRO:3]; for background see for example [INTRO:9], [INTRO:10], and [INTRO:11]. Reference [INTRO:5] describes the procedure for obtaining Internet protocol documents, while [INTRO:6] contains a list of the numbers assigned within Internet protocols.

• 1.1.1 Internet Hosts
• 1.1.2 Architectural Assumptions
• 1.1.3 Internet Protocol Suite
• 1.1.4 Embedded Gateway Code