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temporary area An area that is created
when a named area is modified.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol
A connection-oriented
transport-layer Internet protocol that
provides reliable full-duplex data
transmission.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) A
connectionless transport-layer Internet
protocol that exchanges datagrams without
acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery,
requiring that error processing and
retransmission be handled by other
protocols.
UDP See User Datagram Protocol.
ZIP See Zone Information Protocol.
X.25 An ITU-T standard that defines how
connections are maintained for remote
terminal access and computer
communications in public data networks.
Zone Information Protocol (ZIP) The
AppleTalk session-layer protocol that
maintains and discovers the network-wide
mapping of network number ranges to zone
names. NBP uses ZIP to determine which
networks contain nodes that belong to a
zone.