bind binding (bind)

• establish the initial communication channel between the protocol driver and the mac driver.
• allow protocol driver and mac driver communication.

In computer Binding have many means.

refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding

• Binding (or associating) an Internet socket to a local port number and IP address
• Binding (or connecting) to a server in client–server computing
• Data binding, the technique of connecting two data elements together
  • XML data binding, representing XML document data using objects and classes
  • UI data binding, linking a user interface element to an element of a domain model, such as a database field
• Key binding, or keyboard shortcut, mapping specific key combinations to specific software functionality
• Language binding, a library which provides a functional interface to another library written in a different programming language
• Name binding, in a programming language, the association of data (or code) with an identifier
• Late binding, name binding which is resolved at run-time rather than in advance (pre-execution time)