Zone Information Protocol
Zone Information Protocol (ZIP) is a term used in computer science .
The Zone Information Protocol , or ZIP for short , is a protocol for grouping network nodes in an AppleTalk network. In the context of the Name Binding Protocol , Zone Information Protocol is used to determine the nodes in a network that belong to a specific zone.
A zone is a logical grouping of network nodes which does not have to match the physical assignment to network segments.
It is defined in RFC 1742 .
The protocol belongs to the session layer .
The AppleTalk protocol stack
The AppleTalk protocols can be divided into several layers that form a protocol stack . The protocols can be classified in the ISO-OSI reference model as follows :
| OSI layer | AppleTalk protocol stack | ||||||
| 7th | AFP | PAP | |||||
| 6th | |||||||
| 5 | ZIP | ASP | ADSP | ||||
| 4th | ATP | AEP | NBP | RTMP | |||
| 3 | DDP | ||||||
| 2 | LLAP | ELAP | TLAP | FDDI | ← AARP | ||
| 1 | LocalTalk |
Ethernet driver |
Token Ring Driver |
FDDI driver |
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literature
- Gursharan S. Sidhu, Richard F. Andrews, Alan B. Oppenheimer: Inside AppleTalk, Second Edition . Ed .: Apple Computer, Inc. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990, ISBN 0-201-55021-0 (English). * Apple Computer Inc .: Inside Macintosh: Networking , 2nd, Addison-Wesley, 1994, Chapter 1 - Introduction to AppleTalk (online version)