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1. International Standards Bodies

o International Standards Organization (ISO)

Concerned with the development of standards relating to information processing
systems.
o International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Concerned with the development of standards relating to all aspects of international
telecommunication networks.
o Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Concerned with the development of standards relating to the architecture and operation
of the Internet.
The IETF standards documents are called request for comments (RFCs) and can be
obtained from:
o http://www.ietf.org/rfc

o Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA)

Manages the allocation of Internet addresses.
o Internet Society (ISOC)
Administers the IETF.
o Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Concerned with the development of standards relating to local area (computer)
networks (LANs).
o Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
Standards relating to network security.
o World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Concerned with the development of the Web including new technologies, protocols and
standards.

2. International Forums

o Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL)

Concerned with the development of standards relating to the various digital subscriber
loop technologies, for example, asynchronous DSL (ADSL).
o Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Standards relating to all aspects of ATM networks.
o Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
Standards relating to gigabit Ethernet.
o Multimedia Cable Network Systems (MCNS) Partners
Concerned with the development of the data-over-cable service interface specification
(DOCSIS).
 o Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers

o Frame Relay Forum

Standards relating to frame relay networks.
o Internet Software Consortium
Source of free software for use on the Internet.
o Web ProForum
Concerned with issues relating to the Web.
o Wireless Data Forum
Standards relating to data over wireless networks.
o WAP Forum
Standards relating to the wireless application (WAP) protocols.
o Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC)
Concerned with the technology and protocols associated with interactive digital audio-
visual applications and services.

3. Professional Publications

The following produce publications relating to multimedia applications, networks, protocols

and standards. Details of the publications of each institution can be found at:

o Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

o IEEE Communications Society

o IEEE Computer Society

o Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)

o Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

o ACM Special Interest Group in Communications (SIGCOMM)

o American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

4. Networking Companies

Some excellent publications relating to networking and general communications topics can
be found at:

o AT&T

o CISCO

o Nortel
 o 3COM

o Microsoft

o Netscape

o Phone.com
Internet access over wireless networks.

5. Specific Topics

5.1 General/Historical

o The birth of the Internet, Kleinrock

o A brief history of the Internet, Leiner et al

o A little history of the World Wide Web, The World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C)

o Data Communications magazine (general data comms and

networks)

o Byte magazine (general data comms)

5.2 Compression

o Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

o Graphical interchange format (GIF)

o Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) standards

o Audio coding (MPEG)

o Audio coding (MP4 Structured Audio)

o Video coding (MPEG4)

5.3 Telecommunication Networks

o General telecomms information

o Tutorial on H.323

o Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

 o Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

o Wireless Application Protocols

5.4 Local Area Networks

o LAN switches

o Switched LAN internetworks

o Gigabit Ethernet

o Address resolution protocol (ARP) for LANs

o Multiprotocol interconnect over frame relay

5.5 The Internet Networking Protocols

o A TCP/IP tutorial

o Internet Protocol (IP)

See also rfc950, 1071 and 2002/3
o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

o ICMP router discovery messages

o Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

See also rfc1662
o Assigned numbers

o Internet Registry IP allocation guidelines

o Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

See also rfc1723
o Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol

o Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)

o Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

See also rfc1772 and 1773
o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)

o Multicast extensions to OSPF

o Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

o Core Based Trees multicast routing

See also rfc2201
o Integrated services architecture in the Internet
See also rfc2205 and 2210/1/2/5
o Differentiated services architecture in the Internet
See also rfc2475, 2481 and 2638
o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

o Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

See also rfc1884, 1993 and 2463
5.6 Transport Protocols

o Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

o TCP extensions for high performance

o TCP extensions for congestion avoidance

o TCP selective acknowledgment options

o TCP congestion control

o Datagram Protocol

o Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)

5.7 ATM Networks

o ATM Forum

o IP over ATM networks

See also rfc1577

5.8 Entertainment Networks

Cable modems, IEEE802.14:

o http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys/

Data-over-cable service interface specification (DOCSIS)

o http://www.cablemodem.com

o http://www.packetcable.com

o http://www.cablelabs.com

o http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/cab_rout/

o IP over cable networks

Digital subscriber lines (DSL):

 o http://www.adsl.com/about_dsl.htm

o Digital Audio-Video Council (DAVIC)

o Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standards

5.9 Security

o Introduction to public key cryptography

o Security architecture for the Internet Protocol

See also rfc2402, 2406/7
o The Triple DES encryption protocol

o RSA cryptography specification

o Pretty good privacy (PGP)

o The MD5 message digest algorithm

o The Kerberos authentication service

o Netscape certificate server

o Netscape security developer

o Security on the wireless Internet

5.10 Internet Applications

o Domain Names
See also rfc1034, 1779 and 2136
o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
See also rfc822
o Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)

o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

See also rfc2045/6/8 and 1911
o File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

o Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

o Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

 o TELNET protocol

o ITU-T Rec. H.323

Packet-based multimedia communications standard.
o Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

o Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)

o Simple Network Management Protocol version 2 (SNMPv2)

See also rfc1906/7
o SNMP Management Information Base version 2 (MIB-II)

5.11 The World Wide Web

o Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) version 1.0

o HTTP version 1.1

o Extensible Markup Language (XML)

o Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)

o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

o Java Tutorial

ActiveX:

o http://www.activex.com

o http://www.microsoft.com/com/activex.asp

JavaScript:

o http://developer.netscape.com/tech/javascript

o http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/scripting

Perl:

o http://www.perl.org

o http://www.perl.com