Which of the following statements describes the purpose of the Transport Layer in the
TCP/IP stack?

A.
Provides a data transport service for routing and control protocols such as OSPF and
ICMP.

B.
Provides a universal address plan to uniquely identify every device in the network.

C.
Defines a standard method for framing data for transmission on the physical network
medium.

D.
Provides a data transport service to higher protocol layers.