Changes in *:96 Internet Application Protocols and Standards, Spring 1999

By Jacob Palme, e-mail: jpalme@dsv.su.se, at the research group for CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and KTH.

Here is a list of the changes in the course reading for the course "Internet Application Protocols and Standards" in the spring of 1999.

Studentexpeditionen at DSV in Electrum (Kista) will sell a small compendium containing only those documents marked "Yes" in the "Print" column in the table below.

Compen-
dium No.
Pages Changed document Print
1
1-5
RFC 2234: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF moved to pages 801-807 and changed to a new edition (only small changes).
No
1
71-95
IMAP version 3 removed, since version 4 is included on page 643-683.
No
1
253-256
Addition: RFC 2197: SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
Yes
2
327-309
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 changed to new version (only small changes)
No
2
408-410

IANA Registry of Media types changed to pages 451-457 and changed to a new version

No
3
461-644
HTML 4.0 changed to version 19980424 (only small changes)
No
4
746-754
Added offprints of the chapters about IMAP4, PGP, NNTP, IRC and XML from the book Internet Standards and Protocols by Dilip C. Naik, Microsoft Press 1998, ISBN 1-57231-692-6.
Yes
5
557-608
Removed Wilbur – HTML 3.2
No
5
557-559
Added Quick HTML Guide
Yes
5
560-561
Added Raggett's 10 minute Guide to HTML
Yes
5
562-564
Added Adding a touch of style (about Style Sheets in HTML)
Yes
5
565-567
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Yes