Big Book Of Internet Host Standards; Editor: Loshin, Pete; Introduction: Salus, Peter H.; Paperback

Editor: Loshin, Pete; Introduction: Salus, Peter H.
Big Book (Morgan Kaufmann); Paperback
310 pages
Published: March 2000
Harcourt Publishers Ltd, a subsidiary of Harcourt International Ltd
ISBN: 0124558445
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RFCs -- Requests For Comments -- are extremely useful sources of information on the various standards and protocols governing Internet computing. Written by experts in many different subspecialties and evaluated according to strict guidelines of the Internet Engineering Task Force, these documents are the means by which hundreds of thousands of engineers share with one another their insights to Internetworking theory and practice. Pete Loshin has written several books about the Internet, extranets, TCP/IP networking and network security; has contributed to such magazines as PC World, PC Magazine, and Communications Week; and formerly was an editor at BYTE Magazine.This work collects RFCs - Requests for Comments- on the Internet Host Standards. These are host requirments included in the IETF's STD 1 which is published as RFC 2500, Internet Office Protocol Standards.