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• Network Standards
• Internet Protocols
• Connection Standards
• Communications Technology
• Management Standards
• Security, Cryptography and Algorithms
• Journal Articles, Conference Papers and Books
• Networking Industry Information

Network Standards

IEEE 802

• IEEE 802 Standards
  IEEE Local and Metropolitan Area Network standards. Available for free six months after publication.
• IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee's Working Group Home Pages
  IEEE 802 develops Local and Metropolitan Area Network standards. Locate links to the home pages of the committee's working groups.

Internet Protocols

iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) Protocol Registries
IANA allocates and maintains unique codes and numbering systems that are used in the technical standards (“protocols”) that drive the Internet.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN is a technical coordination body for the Internet that coordinates unique assignments for Internet domain names, IP address numbers, and protocol parameter and port numbers.

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
ARIN is responsible for the administration and registration of IP numbers for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

PROTOCOLS.COM
Information about the function, structure and parameters of common protocols. The physical interfaces section provides descriptions of the physical layer technologies used in data communications.

Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Read this paper from Chuck Semeria of 3Com Corporation.

InterNIC: The Internet's Network Information Center
Public Information Regarding Internet Domain Name Registration Services

Connection Standards

Fibre Channel

• Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA)
  Delivers a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure to support industry applications within mass storage and IT-based arenas. Information about Fibre Channel technology, news and products.
• Fibre Channel Products
  From Adaptec.

IEEE 1394

• 1394 Trade Association
  Promotes IEEE 1394 Serial Bus standard technology into computer, consumer, peripheral, and industrial markets for interoperable, standardized, universal I/O and back plane interconnect.

USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF)
USB-IF supports the advancement and adoption of Universal Serial Bus technology. Facilitates devlopment of high-quality compatible USB peripheralsl. View the group's white papers.

Communications Technology

Broadband Forum
Central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and converged packet networks worldwide. Develops multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and management.

ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
ACM's professional forum for discussing communications and computer networks.

Management Standards

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
Brings IT industry together to collaborate on development, validation and promotion of systems management standards that enable interoperable IT management. Visit the Learning Center for tutorials and white papers.

Security, Cryptography and Algorithms

SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute
Research and education organization. Register for free subscription to SANS NewsBites, weekly high-level executive summary of the most important news articles published on computer security during the week. Browse the Information Security Reading Room.

ACM Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC)

• Interest: maintaining and protecting computers and programs, focusing on the architectural foundation of secure systems.
• Also: Development of computer security standards

RSA Security
Electronic security company. See the Content Library for white papers.

A Layman's Guide to a Subset of RSA Data Security by Burton S. Kaliski Jr.
Introduction to OSI's Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), Basic Encoding Rules (BER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER).

Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
Designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography, Kerberosl is available for free from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (Rensselaer Hartford community only)
Full text from ACM Digital Library database.

Journal of Algorithms
Obtain tables of contents and abstracts for free. To obtain the full text of specific articles, use our Interlibrary Loan service. You can fill out your request form online!

Collected Algorithms of the ACM
Download algorithms from this site.

German Enigma Machine
Learn about the breaking of Enigma, Germany's machine cipher.

ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)
ACM SIGACT specializes in the theoretical foundations of computer science.

books24x7
Thousands of Electronic Books on Engineering, IT and Management topics, including computer science.

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking (Idea Group) (Rensselaer Hartford community only)
in-depth coverage of many topics related to multimedia evolution, design, communications, e-commerce, education, security, and virtual communities.

Industry Information

LexisNexis Academic (Rensselaer Hartford community only)
Full text articles from news, trade, legal and business publications, including a large selection of publications on computer and industries.

Network Professional Association (NPA)
NPA is the association for network computing professionals.

Standard & Poor's Computers: Networking Industry Survey (Rensselaer Hartford community only)
Industry overview, including statistics, outlook, and comparative analysis of statistics for major players.
Note: Select "Industry" from the horizontal blue menu bar at the top of S & P's home page. Select "Computers: Networking" from the alphabetical list of industries.

Also available in print in library reference area:
Location: REF HC 106.6 .S74

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