 document, usually containing the identification of the persons concurring to its formation and of its temporal, geographical and administrative context. [Archives] 
n., [record] See: protocol register [Archives] 
n., [computing] A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. Low level protocols de
fine the electrical and physical standards to be observed, bit- and byte-ordering and the transmission and error detectio
n and correction of the bitstream. High level protoco