Dalhousie University CSCI 3171:
Some Internet Standards

General Links

• Local links on data communications in general

• ISI RFC Editor
  • http://www.rfc-editor.org/
  • Search: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html
  • Official Internet Protocol Standards: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html
  
  
• Internet Architecture Board (IAB), http://www.isi.edu/iab
  
• Internet Society, http://www.isoc.org
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), http://www.ietf.org
  
  
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/Consortium
  
  

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):

  • http://www.iana.org/numbers.html
  • MIME types

• Internet FAQ Consortium: http://www.faqs.org/rfc

• Cryptography: Public Key Cryptography Standards at RSA Security.

TCP/IP Port Numbers

• Ranges of Port Numbers:

  • 0 to 1023: system (well-known) ports
  • 1024 to 49151: user (registered) ports
  • 49152 to 65535: dynamic and private ports (Note: 49152 = 0xC000)
  
  

• The official IANA list of port numbers

• A good annotated listing of port numbers and services

• The /etc/services file on this host

• Some frequently used port numbers

  Port (decimal)	Description
  7	Echo
  13	Time of day
  21	FTP control
  20	FTP data
  22	SSH
  23	Telnet
  25	SMTP
  53	DNS
  80	HTTP
  515	LPR
  110	POP3
  111	Sun RPC
  119	NNTP
  1099	RMI reistry

Frequently Accessed RFCs (Internet Request for Comments)

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