Finally! All the Internet-related standards and protocols in one place!
INTERNET STANDARDS AND PROTOCOLS is not another Internet "how-to" book or content guide. Rather, this exclusive volume concentrates on the basic technologies behind the Internet. Unlike technical dictionaries, this book makes terms and protocols more useful by organizing them according to what they do--and it accompanies them with in-depth descriptions.

INTERNET STANDARDS AND PROTOCOLS covers:
- The governing bodies that decide Internet protocol standards
- The basic transports that constitute the "plumbing" on the Internet
- Basic connectivity
- Cryptography standards and applications
- Directory services, plus messaging and file transfer mechanisms
- Tools for network management and performance
- World Wide Web specifications
- Text conferencing, audio conferencing, and video conferencing
- Search engines, electronic commerce, and data compression
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

Part 1 Plumbling
Part 2 Locating Information
Part 3 Information Retrieval
Part 4 The Web
Part 5 Multimedia
Part 6 Appendixes

A Quick Reference to Internet Technologies