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The '''Fast Local Internet Protocol''' ('''FLIP''') is a suite of [[Internet protocol suite|internet protocols]], whichconceived providefor Security[[distributed transparency,computing security|distributed and network managementapplications]]. FLIP was designed at the [[Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]] to support [[remote procedure call]]ing in the [[Amoeba (operating system)|Amoeba]] [[distributed operating system]].<ref>[[M. Frans Kaashoek]], Robbert van Renesse, Hans van Staveren, and [[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]]. 1993. FLIP: an internetwork protocol for supporting distributed systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 11, 1 (Feb. 1993), 73–106. https://doi.org/10.1145/151250.151253</ref>

In the [[OSI model]], FLIP occupies [[Network layer|layer 3]], thus replacing [[Internet Protocol|IP]], but it also obviates the need for a transport-level protocol like [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]].