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I am thankful for all comments and corrections! Tag: protocol::atm Description: ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a high speed protocol for communication between computers in a network. While ATM is used to implement *DSL network, it has never gained widespread use as a technology for building local area networks (LANs), for which it was originally intended. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode Tag: protocol::corba Description: CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for interoperability between programs written in different languages and running on different Hardware platforms. CORBA includes a client-server network protocol for distributed computing. With this network protocol, CORBA clients on different computers and written in different languages can exchange objects over a CORBA server such as orbit2 or omniORB. . Link: http://www.corba.org/ Tag: protocol::dhcp Description: DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, a client-server network protocol for automatic assignment of dynamic IP addresses to computers in a TCP/IP network, rather than giving each computer a static IP address. . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt Tag: protocol::dns Description: DNS Domain Name System, a protocol to request information associated with domain names (like "www.debian.org"), most prominently the IP address. The protocol is used in communication with a DNS server (like BIND). For the Internet, there are 13 root DNS servers around the world, that keep the addresses of all registered domain names and provide this information to the DNS servers of internet service providers. . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System Tag: protocol::ethernet Description: Ethernet Ethernet is the most popular networking technology for creatig local area networks (LANs). The computers in an Ethernet network communicate over twisted-pair or fibre cables and are identified by their MAC address. Several different types of Ethernet exist, distinguishable by the maximum connection speed. The most widespread types today are 100MBit/s (100BASE-*) or 1GBit/s (1000BASE-*). . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet Tag: protocol::fidonet Description: FidoNet FidoNet is a mailbox system that enjoyed large popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. The communication between the clients and FidoNet servers was usually carried out over the telephone network using modems and could be used for transferring messages (comparable to e-mail) and files. . Link: http://www.fidonet.org/ Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidonet Tag: protocol::finger Description: Finger The Name/Finger protocol is a simple network protocol to provide extensive, public information about users of a computer, such as e-mail address, telephone numbers, full names etc. Due to privacy concerns, the Finger protocols is not widely used any more, while it widespread distribution in the early 1990s. . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1288.txt Tag: protocol::ftp Description: FTP File Transfer Protocol, a protocol for exchanging files over networks and extensively used in the Internet. The communication between FTP servers and clients uses two channels, the control and the data channel. While FTP was originally used with authentication only, most FTP servers on the internet provide anonymous, passwordless access. Since FTP does not support encryption, sensitive data transfer is carried out over SFTP today. . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0959.txt Tag: protocol::http Description: HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol, one of the most important protocols for the World Wide Web. It controls the data transfer between HTTP servers such as Apache and HTTP clients, which are web browsers in most cases. HTTP resources are requested via URLs (Universal Resource Locators). While HTTP normally only supports file transfer from server to client, the protocol supports sending information to HTTP server, most prominently used in HTML forms. . Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt There are some problems as well: * protocol::lp Tag misnamed, should be lpr, maybe unix-lpr (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt). * protocol::aol-messenger, protocol::icq: "Real" ICQ is dispreferred, ICQ uses OSCAR nowadays Thus, it would be better to merge protocol::aol-messenger and protocol::icq into new protocol::oscar with the description "OSCAR (AIM/ICQ)". * Why isn't it protocol::pop3, but protocol::pop? - -- Torsten Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ID: A244C858 -- FP: 1902 0002 5DFC 856B F146 894C 7CC5 451E A244 C858 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDeiiKfMVFHqJEyFgRAr3SAKCDOH7LqwUies+Xz71XkXMl/FCoUgCgiJRm GwKRZHK+/8QjTh8flLA5vAI= =2QF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
