[Debtags-devel] Protocols descriptions, ATM - HTTP, tag question
Torsten Marek
shlomme at gmx.net
Tue Nov 15 18:27:22 UTC 2005
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Hi,
I am thankful for all comments and corrections!
Tag: protocol::atm
Description: ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a high speed protocol for communication
between computers in a network. While ATM is used to implement *DSL network,
it has never gained widespread use as a technology for building local
area networks (LANs), for which it was originally intended.
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
Tag: protocol::corba
Description: CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for interoperability
between programs written in different languages and running on different
Hardware platforms. CORBA includes a client-server network protocol for
distributed computing. With this network protocol, CORBA clients on
different computers and written in different languages can exchange objects
over a CORBA server such as orbit2 or omniORB.
.
Link: http://www.corba.org/
Tag: protocol::dhcp
Description: DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, a client-server network protocol
for automatic assignment of dynamic IP addresses to computers
in a TCP/IP network, rather than giving each computer a static IP address.
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol
Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt
Tag: protocol::dns
Description: DNS
Domain Name System, a protocol to request information associated with
domain names (like "www.debian.org"), most prominently the IP address. The
protocol is used in communication with a DNS server (like BIND). For the
Internet, there are 13 root DNS servers around the world, that keep the
addresses of all registered domain names and provide this information to
the DNS servers of internet service providers.
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
Tag: protocol::ethernet
Description: Ethernet
Ethernet is the most popular networking technology for creatig local area
networks (LANs). The computers in an Ethernet network communicate over
twisted-pair or fibre cables and are identified by their MAC address. Several
different types of Ethernet exist, distinguishable by the maximum connection
speed. The most widespread types today are 100MBit/s (100BASE-*) or
1GBit/s (1000BASE-*).
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet
Tag: protocol::fidonet
Description: FidoNet
FidoNet is a mailbox system that enjoyed large popularity in the 1980s and
1990s. The communication between the clients and FidoNet servers was usually
carried out over the telephone network using modems and could be used for
transferring messages (comparable to e-mail) and files.
.
Link: http://www.fidonet.org/
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidonet
Tag: protocol::finger
Description: Finger
The Name/Finger protocol is a simple network protocol to provide extensive,
public information about users of a computer, such as e-mail address,
telephone numbers, full names etc. Due to privacy concerns, the Finger
protocols is not widely used any more, while it widespread distribution
in the early 1990s.
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1288.txt
Tag: protocol::ftp
Description: FTP
File Transfer Protocol, a protocol for exchanging files over networks and
extensively used in the Internet. The communication between FTP servers and
clients uses two channels, the control and the data channel. While FTP was
originally used with authentication only, most FTP servers on the internet
provide anonymous, passwordless access. Since FTP does not support encryption,
sensitive data transfer is carried out over SFTP today.
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol
Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0959.txt
Tag: protocol::http
Description: HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol, one of the most important protocols for the
World Wide Web. It controls the data transfer between HTTP servers such as
Apache and HTTP clients, which are web browsers in most cases. HTTP
resources are requested via URLs (Universal Resource Locators). While HTTP
normally only supports file transfer from server to client, the protocol
supports sending information to HTTP server, most prominently used in HTML
forms.
.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http
Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
There are some problems as well:
* protocol::lp
Tag misnamed, should be lpr, maybe unix-lpr (see
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt).
* protocol::aol-messenger, protocol::icq:
"Real" ICQ is dispreferred, ICQ uses OSCAR nowadays
Thus, it would be better to merge protocol::aol-messenger and protocol::icq into
new protocol::oscar with the description "OSCAR (AIM/ICQ)".
* Why isn't it protocol::pop3, but protocol::pop?
- --
Torsten Marek <shlomme at gmx.net>
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