Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol(TCP/IP

• The essential features of this protocol involve
• Identifying sending and receiving devices
• Reformatting information for transmission across the Internet.

Identification
Every computer on the Internet has a unique numeric address called an IP address
( Internet Protocol Address).
The internet uses IP address to deliver email and to locate Web sites.
A system was develop to convert text based address to numeric IP Address.This system uses a domain names server(DNS).

Reformatting
The message will reformatted or broken down into small parts called packets.
Each packets is sent separately over the internet.
At the receiving end, the packet are reassembled into the correct order.