[Debtags-devel] Protocols descriptions, ATM - HTTP, tag question

[Torsten Marek]

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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?




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