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Internet Protocols

here are other sources of information that are available on the web. The following is a short list of some of these sources.

• The World Wide Web Consortium at MIT is an international group devoted to the development of common standards for the evolution of the web.
• The Internet Engineering Task Force develops the protocols of the Internet. They also have a comprehensive list of internet drafts that is compiled daily.
• The Internet Tools Summary by John December is a great source of information about the internet, from protocols to interfaces to utilities.
• Ohio State's RFC Information Page has links to resources regarding protocols, terminology, security, standards, and much more.

The newsgroup comp.protocols (and its subsidiaries) has produced several helpful FAQs. Here is a sampling of the newsgroups and their FAQs:

• comp.protocols.ppp: The Point to Point Protocol FAQ.

Encoding Schemes

• Comp.compression has produced several FAQs which answer questions about image and video compression, as well as others regarding topics such as finding software.

Local experts in the field

The most qualified people in the field of computer networks here at UVa can be found at the Computer Networks Lab.