T6-R4 in five minutes
A transport carries the protocol messages.
Local stdio and network transports are different trust stories.
A local process is not automatically safe, but it is a different boundary than a public port.
Confirm which transports the revision you read actually specifies.
Do not open a port in this lab.
The paper exercise uses stdio words only: the host starts a process, talks on its streams, and stops it. No address, no port.
Sources and go deeper
- Model Context Protocol specification, 2025-06-18 spec last checked 2026-10
- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? spec last checked 2026-10
- RFC 9110, HTTP Semantics spec last checked 2026-10
- Model Context Protocol — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10
- HTTP — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10