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{{See also |Internet protocol suite}}

The '''TCP/IP model''' is a descriptive frameorkframework for [[Protocol (computing)|computer network protocols]] created in the 1970s by [[DARPA]], an agency of the [[United States Department of Defense]].

The name derives from the two most important protocols of the networking protocol suite, the [[Transmission Control Protocol]] (TCP) and the [[Internet Protocol]] (IP). The model evolved from the operational principles of the [[ARPANET]], which was an early [[wide area network]] and a predecessor of the [[Internet]]. The [[TCP/IP]] model is formalized in the [[Internet protocol suite]] and is sometimes called the ''Internet model'' or the ''[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]] model.