Flaws in each model

Question 1

OSI flaws

Answer 1

• Was made when TCP/IP was already well established.
  -Is a complicated model.
  -Has unbalanced layers.
  -Repeats functions.
  -Designed for communications and not computing.
  -Complicated to implement
  -Seen as biased towards European telecom, European community, and U.S. government.

Question 2

TCP/IP flaws

Answer 2

-Doesn’t clearly distinguish between what layers do, the interfaces and how the layer communicates, the protocols and how the layer does what it does
-It is too specific, the model is only suited to describing TCP/IP and not other networks.
-Protocols are very specific and are not flexible.
-There’s no distinction between physical and data link layers.