'''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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