I have attended some IETF WG meetings and they call protocols with numbers with 4 digits. It is better to use numbers than use protocol name to refer to specifications, because Internet-devices implement protocols by specifications which may exclude update specifications.
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On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Eric Burger wrote:
That is why we call it IP, TCP, HTTP, SMTP, etc. That is the ‘thing’ that is easy to remember.