[colorforth] Implementing TCP/IP

[kbk@xxxxxxxxx (Kurt B. Kaiser)]

TCP and IP are Internet standards.  TCP gets complex because it must
implement reliable and efficient communications over very unreliable
transport.

When implementing IP in Forth, consider IPv6.  IPv4 is a mis-match for
Forth applications, which includes dishwasher to water heater
communications, as well as browser to webserver.  There aren't enough
IPv4 addresses to go around.

The RFC for IPv6:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2460.html

The RFC for TCP:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html

Stevens has written six thick books on network programming:

http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~kosar/stevens.txt

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KBK

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