[cs631apue] questions for our last class

[Jan Schaumann]

> Host byte ordering is dependent on the architecture
> of the sender or receiver. How is the network byte
> ordering decided? Is there a RFC for
> standardization? 

There is indeed: RFC1700[1], co-authored by John
Postel[2] (of Postel's Law aka the Robustness
Principle[3], and effectively functioning as IANA
before IANA existed)  defined network byte order to be
big endian.

-Jan

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1700
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle