Notice: This file is archived for historical purposes only and is not being updated. Please see the index for updates.

Protocols and standards are the basis for operating tools and forums on the Internet. In this section, I summarize some sources of information about Internet and other protocols. Protocols associated with individual tools are listed with the tools above.

  • ASN.1: resources for the ASN.1 language, by Philipp Hoschka (http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html)
  • Hypertext: Stardards relevant to hypertext (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Standards/Overview.html)
  • IEEE SPAsystem: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Process Automation System (http://stdsbbs.ieee.org)
  • IHS Comm: IHS Communications products, re-publish and produce Telecomm Standards Collection, Video Standards Collection and Comm ADVISOR (http://www.ihscommunications.com)
  • Internet Protocols/NRL: listings of working groups and information about protocols--applications, internet, next generation, network management, operational requirements, routing, security, and much more, from Naval Research Lab (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/Internet.html)
  • ISOC: Index to Internet Standards from the Internet Society (http://info.isoc.org/standards/index.html)
  • Internet STDs: Internet Standards, sub-series of notes within the RFC series which document Internet standards (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/std/)
  • MM Survey List: Distributed Multimedia Survey Standards List, includes CCITT/ISO, Internet, Proprietary (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/MultimediaInfo/mmsurvey/standards.html)
  • Organizations: players in setting technical standards for telecommunications and networking (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/organizations-standards.html)
  • Protocols: Computers-Software-Protocols category from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Software/Protocols/)
  • Standards Page: Index of telcommunication standards documentation (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html)
  • Standards/Standards Bodies: from the WWW Virtual Library (http://www.iso.ch/VL/Standards.html)
  • HTTP: a protocol for networked information (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html)
  • IP: Internet Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0791.txt)
  • Kerberos: network authentication system for physically insecure networks (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.kerberos/)
  • NFS: Network File System will mount remote file systems across homogeneous and heterogeneous systems (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.nfs/)
  • Personal IP: Charm Net Personal IP Page, information about connectivity to the Internet, PPP and MS-Windows, and more (http://www.charm.net/ppp.html)
  • PC-MAC TCP/IP + NFS FAQ: by Rawn Shah (ftp://ftp.rtd.com/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.txt)
  • PC-MAC TCP/IP + NFS FAQ WWW: by Rawn Shah (http://www.rtd.com/pcnfsfaq/faq.html)
  • PC-NFS: (ftp://ftp.york.ac.uk/pub/pc/pc-nfs/FAQ/)
  • PPP: Internet Standard for transmission of IP packets over serial lines (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.ppp/)
  • PPP FAQ: comp.protocols.ppp frequently wanted information (http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/faq.html)
  • SIPP: Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) is one of the candidates being considered by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the next version of the Internet Protocol (http://town.hall.org/sipp/sipp-main.html)
  • SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol (ftp://vtucs.cc.vt.edu/filebox/nyman/whatslip.txt)
  • SNMP FAQ: Simple Network Management Protocol Usenet FAQ (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.snmp/)
  • SNMP Web: the SNMP project group at the University of Twente (the Netherlands), develops a freely-available implementation of SNMP (http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl)
  • SOCKS: A proxy server for IP hosts behind firewalls (ftp://ftp.nec.com/pub/security/socks.cstc/What_Is_SOCKS.CSTC)
  • TCP: Transmission Control Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0793.txt)
  • TCP-IP FAQ: (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.tcp-ip/)
  • Windows/SLIP: Windows internet SLIP software, maintained by Peter Faris QC (http://www.monash.edu.au/informatics/peter/home.htm)
  • Windows/TCP/IP: accessing the Internet using tcp/ip applications under Microsoft Windows, by Harry M. Kriz (http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html)
  • Winsock App List: Comprehensive List of Winsock Applications (http://cwsapps.texas.net/inx.html)
  • X.500 Stds: Links to most sources of information on the X.500 standards (http://www.nexor.co.uk/~cjr/directory.html)
  • ACC: anonymous credit card (ACC) protocol, used for anonymous funds xfer and delivery on the Internet (ftp://research.att.com/dist/anoncc/accinet.ps.Z)
  • EPIC: Effects Protocol for Interactive Communications, a proposal designed to provide enhanced formatting, display control for interaction interactive internet communications (http://netcom7.netcom.com/pub/stewarta/html/stewarta.html)
  • HTML FAQ: hypertext markup language (http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~ec/www/html_faq.html)
  • HTML+: (http://www.w3.org/pub/www/dev/htmlplus.dtd)
  • ISO Protocols: newsgroup (news:comp.protocols.iso)
  • ISO FAQ: (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.iso/)
  • OSI: Open Systems Interconnection protocols (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/osi-protocols)
  • OSI/GOSIP Protocols: (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/GOSIP.html)
  • Other Protocols: XTP, HIPPI, Fibre Channel (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/OP.html)
  • Unicode: a Character Encoding Standard, a 16-bit set to encode all of the characters used for written languages throughout the world (http://www.unicode.org)
  • URI/URL/URN/URC: Addressing for the WWW (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html)
  • URL guide: A Beginner's Guide to URLs (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html)
  • URL syntax: Uniform Resource Locator Syntax (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html)
  • VEMMI: Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for Videotex and Muitimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services (http://www.mctel.fr)
  • X.400: a set of ISO/CCITT standards that defines electronic mail, the only non-proprietary standard for interchange of electronic mail that has the sanction of an official standards body (ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/reader/text/standards/X.400/)
  • Z39.50 W3 Page: (http://www.vtls.com/market/z39/z39page.html)
  • Z39.50 Info Center: *updated* (http://www.bookwhere.com/z3950.htm)
  • Z39.50 Resources: a reference point for resources related to the Information Retrieval Service and Protocol standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.50 (http://ds.internic.net/z3950/z3950.html)

  • 23 Dec 1997
    john@december.com
    http://www.december.com/net/tools/1997/cmc-interfaces-mutt.html
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