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Internet File & Protocol Standards

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Request For Comments (RFC)

RFCs form the basis for all official specifications on the Internet. This link provides a search engine for locating various RFCs.

The Entire List of RFCs

Name Resolution & Type Standards

Internet 2 and 3 letter Country Codes

Internet Addressing (URI, URL, URN, URC)

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extentions (MIME) Media Content-types

Domain Name System (DNS) and Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

Transport Standards

Internet Protocol (IP)

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Internet Protocol - "Next Generation" (TCP/IX)

Internet Services by (Port Number)

Electronic Mail Protocols: (SMTP, POP, IMAP, DNS-MX, PEM )

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) & Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

Real Time Protocol (RTP draft)

Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP - PDF format)

Plugins and Parts

Web Client Plugins (Java, NCAPI, ActiveX)

Web Server Plugins (CGI, ISAPI, NSAPI)

Java Beans

OLE/COM/DCOM

OpenDoc/CORBA/SOM

Xerox Parc's Inter-Language Unification (ILU)

Document Markup Languages

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) & Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML)

MIME Enriched Text Format (RFC 1563)

Microsoft's Rich Text Format (RTF)

Portable/Interpretive Programming Languages

Java & JavaScript

Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)

Python

TCL

3D Specifications

OpenGL

Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

Java3D Class Libs

AutoDesk's Drawing Exchange Format (DXF)

Compression

Compression Specs

Archiving Specs

comp.compression.research FAQ

Multimedia File Formats

Microsoft's Streaming ActiveMovie

FlashPix - Dynamic Resolution Image Format (PDF format)

Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG - Draft 9)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Independent JPEG Group's JPEG/GIF/PNG Source

JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

MPEG Extension to AVI

MIDI Manufacturers Association

Multi-User Interfaces

Multi-User Domains

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - RFC 1459

Unix Talk

ANSI Color and Other Terminal Controls

Security Protocols and Specifications

Useful information regarding internet security

Other References

International Standards Organization (ISO)

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

RTP - A Real Time Protocol proposal

Intel's Developer Technologies Page

Microsoft's Internet Development Toolbox

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