SECTION(«Transport Layer»)
-<p> The protocols of the transport layer provide message transfer services
-which are on one hand independent of the underlying network type,
-and on the other hand independent of the application. Different
-network services on running on the same host are distinguished by
-<em> port numbers</em>, which are 16 bit identifiers. Several well
+<p> The protocols of the transport layer provide message transfer
+services which are on one hand independent of the underlying network
+type, and on the other hand independent of the application. Different
+network services running on the same host are distinguished by
+<em>port numbers</em>, which are 16 bit identifiers. Several well
known port numbers are are associated with specific applications.
The two dominant transport layer protocols on top of IP, TCP and UDP,
are discussed in the following subsections. </p>