Essential Ethernet Standards

And here's
the problem. The only source for standards is a huge flat,
online list of what's called RFCs (Requests for Comments) of
every technical rule and improvement ever proposed. There
are thousands of documents many of which are in process,
irrelevant, out-of-date, or obsolete. Most frustrating for
network professionals is that there is no analysis, no guidance,
no way to keep current for what the standards mean to what
they're doing, just a list.

As Vinton Cerf, Sr. VP of MCI and
"Father of the Internet" says: "What's needed is a running
analysis of the latest RFCs, their potential use, impact on
other standards so one can say, 'If I'm working on an Internet
email application, what standards (RFCs) will I need to
adhere to?'"

Andy Newman, who helps run Yale University's
network says, "The series you propose would be a huge help
to our whole IT staff. We just don't have the time to pour
over all the RFCs and even when we do, we're not always
sure what they have to do with what we're doing. We need
someone else to do that work for us."

The Internet Standards
Series provides that analysis and guidance. Based on the
author's exhaustive analysis of all the RFCs, each book in the
Series provides a step-by-step action plan for integrating the
right standard to the right application.

Table of contents

Internet Standards.

Internet Standards for Ethernet.

Internet Standards and Internet Protocols.

Internet Standards Bodies.

The Internet Standards Process.

Getting the RFCs.

Reading the RFCs.

Network Management Fundamentals.

Ethernet Fundamentals.

Internet Standards and Ethernet.

Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol.

Internet Protocol Version 4 Over Ethernet.

Internet Protocol Version 6 Over Ethernet.

Multicast, Broadcast, and Ethernet.

Ethernet MIBs.