As the Fat Protocol thesis posits, value in blockchains would mostly accumulate at the base protocol layer rather than the application layer. For a while, this seemed to be true. 589 Total views ...

FTP itself uses the TCP transport protocol exclusively, or in other words, it never uses UDP for its transport needs. Typically an application layer protocol will use one or the other.

They were aimed at Layer 7, the internet protocol suite application layer. The approach taken by Storm-1359 allowed it to overwhelm Microsoft’s services with a large volume of requests, ...