Standards
- General
- Character Encodings & Internationalization
- Network Protocols
- RPSL
("Routing Policy Specification Language")
- IPv4
(Fundamental packet format and addressing scheme for the Internet network)
- IPv6 6Bone (IPv6 portal. Updated IP
version, with several important improvements.)
- IPsec
(Public key security mechanisms for the IP protocol family)
- TCP
("Transmission Control Protocol". Reliable IP-datagram byte streaming
protocol for the Internet and other packet-switching networks)
- UDP (User Datagram Protocol.
Unreliable IP-datagram byte streaming protocol for the Internet and other packet-switching
networks)
- LDAP RFC's
(Standard LDAP schema's catalog)
- SCTP references (Reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol
in development by the IETF)
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- DNS references
(DNSsec)
- Secure Shell
- Email related RFC's
- HTTP references
- SIP
("Session Initiation Protocol". A signaling protocol for Internet
based video conferencing, telephony, instant messaging and
presence/events notification.)
(wp)
(SIPfoundry.org community
site for the promotion and development of SIP software)
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- H.232
(Packet-based multimedia communications system protocol)
(H.232 v SIP comparison)
- SNMP RFCs
("Simple Network Management Protocol". Protocol for monitoring and
configuring network devices)
- VOIP Wiki
("Voice Over IP". Wiki guide for
VOIP)
- MRML
("Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language")
- BitTorrent
(Peer-to-peer system for distributing large files)
- IEEE 802.x Wireless Networking
- File Formats & Interfaces
- Inter Office Suite XML
(Project to create standard file-formats, based on XML technology,
for inter-changing files between the various office suites.)
(source)
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- OpenPGP RFC
(Public-private key based, document signing/encrypting framework)
- HTML ("HyperText Markup Language".
Markup language for world-wide-web content.)
- CSS ("Cascading Style Sheets".
Stylization language for HTML documents)
(Eric Meyer CSS site)
- XML ("Extensible Markup Language".
Flexible language discription to allow for the description of the format of
structured documents and data)
- DOM ("Document Object Model".
Enables applications to dynamically access and update the content,
structure and style of XML documents)
- SAX ("Simple API for XML".
Lightweight - and less political - DOM alternative aimed at handling
'streamed' XML data.)
(cvs)
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- XSLT
("eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation". XSLT is a XML based
language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents)
- XSL ("eXtensible Stylesheet
Language". XML/XSLT based language description for expressing XML stylesheets.)
- PNG ("Portable Network
Graphics". Lossless image file format.)
(PNGcrush optimizer)
(MNG specification Animated PNG image format)
- SVG ("Scalable Vector Graphics".
XML based vector drawing/interaction language.)
- SMIL
("Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language".
'Smile' enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations.)
- Internet Calendering and Group Scheduling (IETF proposed calendering standards:
iCal,
iTip,
iMip,
and CAP)
- International Date Format (ISO standard 8601, an example: 2002-1-1)
- CGI ("Common Gateway Interface".
Simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under
an information server in a platform-independent manner.)
- FastCGI (Language independent,
open extension to CGI, that provides better performance
due to process persistance.)
- Reverse-engineered DVD-Video Information
- SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol".
Lightweight and flexible protocol framework for the exchange of information in a decentralized,
distributed environment)
- UDDI ("Universal Description, Discovery
and Integration". Experimental 'business-services' communication project
based on DNS/HTTP/XML/SOAP.)
- SLP ("Service Location Protocol".
Experimental protocol allows networking applications to discover the
existence, location, and configuration of networked services.)
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- SAML
("Security Assertion Markup Language". SAML is used for the formation
and exchange of authentication, attribute, and authorization data as XML)
(OpenSAML a C++ library
implementing of SAML)
- Graphical Interfaces
- OpenGL
(Advanced 3D graphics API)
Licensing details.)
- FreeDesktop.org (Support
site for interoperability among free desktop environments)
(cvs)
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- ICCCM
("Inter-Client Communication Conventions".
X windowing system based protocol operations for inter-client
communication)
- XDND
(Drag-and-Drop Protocol for the X windowing system)
