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In my opinion "application layer" and "transport layer" would be better terms than L7 and L4.


In my last role I started trying to enforce this by refusing to use the terms "Layer 7" and "Layer 4" (I worked on application and transport layer infrastructure at a big tech) but it never caught on and after having to give "the talk" about what happened to OSI Layers a few times I resigned myself to the fate that it was never happening. I will continue to use those terms though.




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