Graham Samuel wrote:
I can't answer the question but I would very much like to be around
when it is answered. When I was younger (**much** younger), I used to
kind of absorb technical stuff without consciously learning about it,
but nowadays stuff suddenly comes up and bites me in the rear and I
wonder where it came from: for me, XML is like that, and so is most
Internet stuff.
:-)
Sockets, do we need them and is the term just a token or does it
carry some metaphorical meaning?
It does carry some meaning - the idea was that you could "plug together"
different programs. You make "connections" between "sockets"
And that great forest of non-mnemonic clusters of letters like say
DHCP - just look at the Network Control Panel on a Mac or PC and
despair... I've tried to read my way into the subject, but it hasn't
helped me much. For example, I noticed the following in the RR
documentation for 'OpenSockets':
DHCP - Dynamic Host Config Protocol Can't think of a more mnemonic
acronym for it.
For technical information about the numbers used to designate
standard ports, see the list of port numbers at <http://
www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>, in particular the section
titled "Well Known Port Numbers".
Following that link led to something surreal as far as I could see:
what are all those individuals doing in there? And who or what is
IANA? OK, I know I'm out of my depth.
IANA is the co-ordinating body for various numbers (protocol number,
port numbers, etc.)
If you need, e.g. a port to be assigned, you need to apply to IANA, with
a description of why you need a port, what it will be used for, where
the appropriate documents can be found, etc. (the process is much more
rigorous nowadays than it used to be). The individuals listed along with
*some* of the assigned ports are the individuals who sent in the
application.
Let's hope Andre can help us (on sockets, not the other stuff).
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