Zone Information Protocol

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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

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)