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