| 1. Active IETF Working Groups |
| A directory of the Internet Engineering Task Force groups and their web pages. |
| http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html |
| 2. Free Protocols Foundation |
| Independent public forum supporting patent-free protocols. Includes policies, papers, a mission statement, and a list of free protocols. |
| http://www.freeprotocols.org/ |
| 3. IETF Internet Drafts |
| List of documents organized by alphabetized subjects. |
| http://www.ietf.org/1id-abstracts.html |
| 4. Internet Encyclopedia |
| Overview of Internet protocols. |
| http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/73.htm |
| 5. Internet protocols |
| General comments on protocol design, and good reference material on a few protocols (especially mail-related; also ftp, time, and misc) by Dan Bernstein. |
| ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto.html |
| 6. Internet2 |
| A consortium led by universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. |
| http://internet2.edu/ |
| 7. Port Numbers and Services Database |
| Well known port numbers for TCP and UDP, from Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). |
| http://www.sockets.com/services.htm |
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| 8. RFC Editor |
| Collates Request For Comments documents. Explains the RFC process, and includes a searchable database of RFCs. |
| http://www.rfc-editor.org/ |
| 9. RFC Sourcebook |
| Description of protocols, file formats, glossary of terms, RFCs. |
| http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/ |
| 10. The Internet Report (IETF Weekly Updates) |
| A table of new Internet Drafts and RFC's that come out each week, with synopses. Archived summaries go back to June 1999. |
| http://ietfreport.isoc.org/ |
| 11. The Kermit Project |
| A protocol that transfers text and binary files without errors between diverse types of computers over potentially hostile communication links, and a suite of communications software programs; Columbia University. |
| http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ |
| 12. XNS.org |
| Independent organization managing the eXtensible Name Service, an open protocol and open-source platform for universal addressing, automated data exchange, and privacy control. Includes an overview, charter, history, and specifications. |
| http://www.xns.org/ |
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