Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical

Pete Loshin

The Burton Group reports that while many companies are connected to the Internet, nearly 60% of U.S. businesses, large and small, and 80% abroad will be connecting to the Internet over the next 5 years. Being connected means that technical professionals designing and running the network must keep tabs on the current technical rules (standards) and updates. Every time they make a change in their network, often daily, no matter how small, they must check on the most current standard or its most recent improvement to make sure they're doing it right or the application won't work.

And here's the problem. The only source for standards is a huge flat, online list of what's called RFCs (Requests for Comments) of every technical rule and improvement ever proposed. There are thousands of documents many of which are in process, irrelevant, out-of-date, or obsolete. Most frustrating for network professionals is that there is no analysis, no guidance, no way to keep current for what the standards mean to what they're doing, just a list.

As Vinton Cerf, Sr. VP of MCI and "Father of the Internet" says: "What's needed is a running analysis of the latest RFCs, their potential use, impact on other standards so one can say, 'If I'm working on an Internet email application, what standards (RFCs) will I need to adhere to?'" Andy Newman, who helps run Yale University's network says, "The series you propose would be a huge help to our whole IT staff. We just don't have the time to pour over all the RFCs and even when we do, we're not always sure what they have to do with what we're doing. We need someone else to do that work for us."

The Internet Standards Series provides that analysis and guidance. Based on the author's exhaustive analysis of all the RFCs, each book in the Series provides a step-by-step action plan for integrating the right standard to the right application. In addition, each book in the Series will be endorsed by a leading creator of the technology subject.

As a value-add and bonus and a way to keep the information "alive", we're including a fully searchable, hyperlinked CD-ROM of the book with the unique hook of restricted access to the analysis of ongoing standards and updates maintained by the author at Wiley's web site.

Table of Contents

  • INTERNET STANDARDS.
    • Internet Email Standards.
    • Internet Standards and Internet Protocols.
    • Internet Standards Bodies.
    • The Internet Standards Process.
    • Getting the RFCs.
    • Reading the RFCs.
  • INTERNET MESSAGING STANDARDS.
    • Messaging Standards.
    • Internet Message Format Standard.
    • Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).
    • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
    • Post Office Protocol (POP).
    • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
    • SMTP Message Address Resolution.
    • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
    • vCard.
    • Calendaring and Scheduling Standards.
    • Internet Messaging Security.
    • The Future of Internet Messaging.
  • Appendices.
  • Index.

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Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Wiley Computer Books

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List Price: $54.99
0-471-34597-0
339 Pages
Published: 11/03/1999
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