This page contains references to useful additional documents for the IPP effort. They are organized into broad categories below:

• IETF Rules for Standards, Editor Instructions, and other IETF Magic:
  • RFC 1543: Instructions to RFC Authors
  • RFC 1718: The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  • RFC 2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
• Mail Message Format:
  • RFC 822: Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
  • Internet Draft: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
• Line Printer Daemon, and other printing related protocols:
  • RFC 1179: Line Printer Daemon Protocol
  • Late draft of the semantic parts of DPA (ISO/IEC 10175, Part 1)
  • DPA part 3: Management abstract service definition and procedures
• MIME and extensions:
  • RFC 1641: Using Unicode with MIME
  • RFC 1847: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
  • RFC 1872: The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
  • RFC 2015: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  • RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
  • RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
  • RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
  • RFC 2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
  • RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
• HTTP, HTML and extensions:
  • RFC 1866: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
  • RFC 1867: Form-based File Upload in HTML
  • RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
    • Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (draft 5)
    • HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (draft 3)
  • RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP: Digest Access Authentication
  • RFC 2079: Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
  • Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data (Masinter)
  • PEP: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP (W3C)
• Directory services and URLs:
  • RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  • RFC 1777: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • RFC 1959: An LDAP URL Format
  • RFC 1960: A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
  • RFC 2165: Service Location Protocol
  • Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System (Internet Draft)
  • URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution (Internet Draft)
  • Service Templates and service: Schemes (Internet Draft)
  • Finding Stuff (Internet Draft)
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP):
  • RFC 2060: IMAP version 4rev1
• Computer Printer Access Protocol (CPAP):
  • CPAP spec
• Security services, electronic payment, etc:
  • RFC 1969: The PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE)
  • RFC 2015: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  • RFC 2078: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2
  • Internet Draft: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
  • Digital Signature Initiative (W3C)
  • IETF draft: Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP (W3C)
  • SEA: A Security Extension Architecture for HTTP/1.x (W3C)

Additionally, you can use find other documents from the InterNIC indexes, including search engines for related Internet documents, and Internet Drafts.

Last updated April 15, 2000