Protocol and Technology Documentation

• ISS101 - Internet Survival Skills: a basic tutorial (dated 1995)
• Cisco Knowledge Suite contains tutorial and excerpts
• Protocol Design Principles (from Holzmann)
• Internet Protocol Journal publishes tutorials on basic Internet technologies
• Stuttgart "wineglass", the progenitor of the hourglass protocol model, with the network layer in the thin stem. developed by IBM's John Aschenbrenner in 1979; Figure adapted from pg. 312, J. Bartik, "OSI: From model to prototype as commerce tries to keep pace." Data Communications, 13(3), 307-319, March 1984.
• Cisco has put together the Technology Information series on internetworking, with information on most lower-layer technologies from X.25 to FDDI and ATM, routing and troubleshooting.
• Cross-indexed HTML RFC listing
• Normos: I-Ds, RFCs
• Searchable index of RFCs and Internet Drafts, another
• Official status list
• BANalyzer: network protocol database
• Looking back on a few tech trends that weren't: SMDS, ISDN, IPv6