Internet engineers also complain that RRP uses the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which doesn't provide an audit trail for resolving domain-name disputes.

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CFCs are banned under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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"By securing our new features in the protocol and therefore lightening up the application layer, we reduce the guess work, optimize development success and advance the entire market, " added Morris.

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Eight years ago, fresh out of Stanford, Kocher cowrote Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the protocol that secures the vast majority of commerce on the Internet.

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The application-layer FIX (financial information exchange) protocol is used by financial services firms, stock exchanges, and investment banks for automated financial trading.

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The Montreal Protocol is the international agreement designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out production of Cfc's and halons.

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The Montreal protocol, which banned various ozone-depleting chemicals, has left the ozone layer's long-term prospects looking quite bonny.

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Although the FIX protocol was updated in the past year to free FIX apps from that session layer, he says, most of these apps are still running the FIX session layer.

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