B Additional Information Resources

B.1 Internet Request For Comments

The Internet Request For Comments (or RFC) documents are the written definitions of the protocols and policies of the Internet.

The Web-page http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html provides entry points to get at the RFCs.

As the time of writing (December 1995) RFC 1880 describes the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet as determined by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has an own RFC-index

B.2 Periodicals

UNIX and networking is covered in the following periodicals:

• Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience
  reports on internetworking research, with emphasis on experimental validation of ideas (source: [Com95, page 15])
• ConneXions
  contains articles about TCP/IP and the Internet as well as official statements of policy from the IAB (source: [Com95, page 15])
• Computer Communication Review
  is the SIGCOMM quarterly publication

B.3 Additional Web Pages

Here a collection of probably interesting Web pages:

• Available C++ libraries FAQ
• Client Server Computing - Unix Sockets and RPC
• UNIX Reference Desk
• Jumbo! - Programming: Unix
• RFC Index Search Form
• LINUX.ORG.UK
• Index - Well Known TCP/IP Ports - information about protocols and IP ports

Some networking & UNIX programming related newsgroups:

• comp.unix.programmer
• comp.protocols.tcp-ip
• comp.os.linux.networking

Some META-FAQs:

• USENET FAQs
• Computer and Communication Usenet related Newsgroups and FAQs

Some Pointers to FAQs:

• TCP-IP FAQ
• C++ FAQ
• comp.protocols.tcp-ip FAQ

Man-Pages:

• BSDI
• HP-UX