February 2006
RFC 3651 (Informational) : Handle System Namespace and Service Definition - S. Sun, L. Lannom, B. Boesch, CNRI - November 2003
"This document provides a detailed description of the Handle System namespace, and its data, service, and operation models".
RFC 3650 (Informational) : Handle System Overview - S. Sun, L. Lannom, B. Boesch, CNRI - November 2003
"The Handle System is a general-purpose global name service that allows secured name resolution and administration over networks such as the Internet".
RFC 2251: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) - M. Wahl, Critical Angle Inc. - T. Howes, Communications Corp. - S. Kille, Isode Limited - December 1997
"This document describes a directory access protocol that provides both read and update access".
RFC 2795 (Informational) : The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) - S. Christey, MonkeySeeDoo, Inc. - 1 April 2000
"It has been posited that if an infinite number of monkeys sit at an infinite number of typewriters and randomly press keys, they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare".
January 2006
RFC 2616 (Obsoletes: 2068) : Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 - R. Fielding, UC Irvine - J. Gettys, Compaq/W3C - J. Mogul, Compaq - H. Frystyk, W3C/MIT - L. Masinter, Xerox - P. Leach, Microsoft - T. Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT - June 1999
by 2 others" The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems".
RFC 4315 (Obsoletes: 2359) : Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - UIDPLUS extension - M. Crispin - December 2005
"The UIDPLUS extension [...] provides a set of features intended to reduce the amount of time and resources used by some client operations. The features in UIDPLUS are primarily intended for disconnected-use clients".
December 2005
RFC 2177 : IMAP4 IDLE command - B. Leiba, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - June 1997
"This document specifies the syntax of an IDLE command, which will allow a client to tell the server that it's ready to accept [...] real-time updates".
RFC 4314 (Obsoletes: 2086) : IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension - A. Melnikov, Isode Ltd. - December 2005
"The Access Control List (ACL) extension (RFC 2086) of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) permits mailbox access control lists to be retrieved and manipulated through the IMAP protocol. This document is a revision of RFC 2086".
RFC 4287 : The Atom Syndication Format - M. Nottingham, Ed. - R. Sayre, Ed. - December 2005
by 2 others"This document specifies Atom, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format".
November 2005
RFC 3987 : Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) - M. Duerst, W3C - M. Suignard, Microsoft Corporation - January 2005
by 1 other"This document defines a new protocol element, the Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI), as a complement to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)".
RFC 3085 (Informational) : URN Namespace for NewsML Resources - A. Coates, Reuters - D. Allen, IPTC - D. Rivers-Moore, Rivcom - March 2001
" This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace for identifying NewsML NewsItems".- e.g. : urn:newsml:reuters.com:20000206:IIMFFH05643_2000-02-06_17-54-01_L06156584:1U
RFC 3188 (Informational) : Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names - J. Hakala, Helsinki University Library - October 2001
"This document discusses how national bibliography numbers (persistent and unique identifiers assigned by the national libraries) can be supported within the URN (Uniform Resource Names) framework and the syntax for URNs defined in RFC 2141".
RFC 3303 (Informational) : Report from the Joint W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), URLs, and Uniform Resource Names (URNs): Clarifications and Recommendations - M. Mealling, Ed., R. Denenberg, Ed.,
"This document addresses how URI space is partitioned and the relationship between URIs, URLs, and URNs, describes how URI schemes and URN namespaces ids are registered, and presents recommendations for continued work on this subject".
RFC 2087 : IMAP4 QUOTA extension - J. Myers, Carnegie Mellon - January 1997
"The QUOTA extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol [IMAP4] permits administrative limits on resource usage (quotas) to be manipulated through the IMAP protocol".
October 2005
RFC 4151 (Informational) : The 'tag' URI Scheme - T. Kindberg, Hewlett-Packard Corporation - S. Hawke, World Wide Web Consortium - October 2005
"This document describes the "tag" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. Tag URIs (also known as "tags") are designed to be unique across space and time while being tractable to humans".
September 2005
RFC 2229 (Informational) : A Dictionary Server Protocol - R. Faith, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill - B. Martin, Miranda Productions - October 1997
"The DICT URL scheme is used to refer to definitions or word lists available using the DICT protocol: dict://<user>;<auth>@<host>:<port>/d:<word>:<database>:<n> dict://<user>;<auth>@<host>:<port>/m:<word>:<database>:<strat>:<n>"
