Request For Comments 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
- rfc-editor.org
- once maintained by Jon Postel , and today contracted to 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
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- 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