'''R'''equest '''F'''or '''C'''omments is the extremely modest name for a series of standards defined under the auspices of the [IETF] that define many of the important components of the [Internet].


** Reference **

    [http://www.rfc-editor.org/%|%rfc-editor.org]:   once maintained by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel%|%Jon Postel], and today contracted to [http://www.amsl.com/%|%AMS] by the [IETF]




** RFC's **

   [Atom], a syndication format:   

   The Base16, Base32, and [Base64] Data Encodings:   

   [BEEP], Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol:   

   [CSV], Comma-Separated Values:   

   [DNS], Domain Name System:   

   [FTP], File Transfer Protocol:   

   [gzip], file format specification:   

   [HTTP], Hypertext Transfer Protocol:   

   [IMAP], Internet Mail Access Protocol:   

   [Internet Checksum]:   

   [IP], [Internet] Protocol:   

   [JSON], Javascript Object Notation:   

   [Kerberos], a network authentication service:   

   [LDAP], Lightweight Directory Access Protocol:   

   [LDIF], [LDAP] Data Interchange Fromat:   

   [MD4], a message-digest algorithm:   

   [MD5], a message-digest algorithm :   

   [mime], Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions:   

   [NTP], Network Time Protocol:   
   
   [SASL], Simple Authentication and Security Layer:   

   [SCTP], Stream Control Transmission Protocol:   

   [SMI], Structure and Identification of Management Information:   

   [SMTP], Simple Mail Transfer Protocol:   

   [SNMP], Simple Network Management Protocol:    

   [TCP], Transmission Control Protocol:   

   [TFTP], Trivial File Transfer Protocol:   
   
   [Telnet], an 8-bit byte oriented communication facility:   

   [URI], Uniform Resource Identifier:   

   [URL], Uniform Resource Locator:   

   [URN], Uniform Resource Name:   

   [XMPP], Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol:   

   [ZLIB], compressed data format specification:   


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