Standards from IETF

Border Gateway Protocol, first published as RFC 1105 in 1989, is how autonomous systems exchange routing information, making it...

The Domain Name System, defined in RFC 1034 and 1035 by Paul Mockapetris, translates names like example.com into IP addresses...

Hypertext Transfer Protocol, devised by Tim Berners-Lee around 1990, moves web resources between browsers and servers. HTTP/1.1...

Internet Protocol version 4, defined in RFC 791 in 1981, has a 32 bit address space of about 4.3 billion addresses. The central...

Internet Protocol version 6 expands addressing to 128 bits, providing roughly 340 undecillion addresses. Standardized through RFC...

JavaScript Object Notation was described by Douglas Crockford around 2001 and standardized through ECMA-404 and the IETF. RFC...

The authorization framework behind sign in with buttons across the web. RFC 6749 replaced OAuth 1.0 with a simpler token flow...

The audio codec standardized in RFC 6716, merging Xiph CELT and Skype SILK technology. It adapts from low bitrate speech to...

The transport protocol Google began deploying inside HTTPS in 2013 and brought to the IETF, published as RFC 9000 in 2021. QUIC...

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, from RFC 821, routes email across the internet. Extensions added authentication, size limits and...

Transmission Control Protocol, specified in RFC 793 with Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn as architects, provides reliable ordered delivery...

Transport Layer Security encrypts internet connections, descending from the SSL protocol Netscape shipped in 1995. TLS 1.3...

The protocol that upgrades an HTTP connection into a persistent two way channel, standardized as RFC 6455 in 2011 after years of...