Sockets

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:58:48AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
> Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel at home.tzo.org> writes:
> 
> > Do you have any doog ones I should look at?
> 
> I'd look at the following things:  XML, BEEP, SIP, MPLS's LDP, SNMP.

SMTP -- a straightforward human-readable protocol which is
inspired or was copied by a half-dozen other major protocols

DNS -- the world's most successful distributed database; it uses
a binary format and thus requires good debugging tools

NNTP -- the world's largest (by data volume) distributed
database

IMAP -- mostly as an anti-recommendation, learn from their
mistakes

X -- a success in spite of itself.

-dsr-