Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical (Internet Standards S.) - Hardcover

Loshin, Pete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471345970 ISBN 13: 9780471345978

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Synopsis

As the Internet continues to grow at a frightening rate, the myriad of standards and technical rules for Internet use are being compiled as part of a huge list called RFC (Requests for Comments). Unfortunately, this is of little use to network professionals as it remains simply a massive list, with no analysis or guidance to make the standards relevant. This book, the first in the "Internet Standards Series", offers a standards tutorial, explaining what the RFCs are, the RFC editing process, different types of RFC, how standards are developed and selected, and where to find text of RFCs and Internet standards. It features a fully searchable and hyperlinked CD-ROM with book buyer-only access to relevant standards updates.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Complete coverage and analysis of official email standards and protocols.

The Internet Standards Series provides analysis of the latest RFCs (Request for Comments) and guidance on their potential use. It is a convenient source that categorizes the standards, summarizes the important ones, and shows you where to look for all the details. Each book includes a step-by-step action plan for integrating the right standard to the right application.

Finding and addressing the Internet email standards that are critical to you network can be very difficult, especially considering that there are over 2,600 RFCs to search through. In this book/CD-ROM set, Pete Loshin conveniently organizes and analyzes the RFCs that are relevant to Internet messaging application and protocols. With its accessible approach to standards, you'll gain a better understanding of what email functions are, how they work, and what is necessary for Internet email applications. Loshin also provides: * A comprehensive introduction to Internet standards for email and Internet messaging * The process of turning a proposed specification into a full Internet standard * Tips and techniques to find the exact RFC that you need * Lists of Web sites that contain additional information about RFCs and Internet standards * Up-to-date email protocol information * Discussions of key foundational email protocols and applications The CD-ROM contains a fully searchable, digital edition of the book in PDF format. Click on the embedded hyperlinks to conveniently access each and every RFC or protocol references in the text directly from the rfc-editor.org site. A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is also included.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471345970
• ISBN 13: 9780471345978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340