Networking information

See also: the newsgroup indexes , and lists of Mailing lists and anonymous FTP sites , other subjects . Here is information by network. This list is not complete.

The Internet

Documents
RFCs , RFC drafts , IETF documents . Take RFCs from your nearest server .
Internet Society
Information service
Merit information
Online internet information from Merit gopher .
InterNIC
General Information about the Internet
Lists of services
Many lists of internet services exist, including: John December's list on Computer-Mediated Communications , The NSF's Internet Resource guide , the " Incomplete Guide ", the "English Server" Internet
IETF User Services:
Mailing lists etc.
Network information protocols
Data sources classified by access protocol
People
The X500 world directory , Index of people who have posted news articles recently; Network Managers Phonebook .
Books
Ed Krol's "The Whole Internet User's Guide" O'Reilly; Tracy LaQuey's "The Internet Companion", available on the web ; Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet (1.02)
"Taking over the Web"
An agenda for re-colonizing the Internet with the general population
Statistics
From Merit
Data
Sources of Data Potentially Available via WWW

Other network and groups

AARNet
Australian Academic and Research Network Resources Guide ,
Arpanet
Netinfo : Mirror of netinfo directory on nic.ddn.mil
BITNET
Hosts
Fidonet
List of nodes ,
ITU
International Telecommunications Union
JANET
The Joint Academic Network of the UK. See host index . See also Mailbase file server and its README .
European Academic Research Network (EARN)
Newsletter .
European academic networks (RARE/RIPE)
The CONCISE information has a mail server , and also telnet access , ... See also RIPE NCC , JENC3 conference.
FUNET
Finland's academic network information .
Usenet
FAQ , cookbook, science, maps , hosts .