Title: Red Book
First published: 1984
Description: This CCITT standards committee document specifies some 1984 data communications standards that were somewhat widely used before the Internet became popular.  It is "Fascicle VII.3" of "Volume VIII" of a very wordy, voluminous, hard to read set of standards.  Written in international bureaucratese for telco manufacturers.  No wonder the Internet took over -- you could read its standards and actually understand how it worked, unlike these.  The big kahuna in this book is "X.25" which was the interface used to a bunch of connection-oriented packet-switching networks that preceded the Internet.  This was particularly used in Europe, but also saw use elsewhere.
Subjects: X.20, X.20 bis, X.21, X.21 bis, X.22, X.24, X.25, X.26, X.27, X.28, X.29, X.30, X.31, X.32, CCITT, networking, ITU, standards
Places: cyberspace
People: committees
Time periods: 1984