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BC-isit442 Class Overview And Structure

BC-isit442 Class Overview And Structure


BC-isit442 Class Overview And Structure






Document #PLPC-120048
Version 0.1
January 05, 2016
This Document is Available on-line at:
http://mohsen.banan.1.byname.net/PLPC/120048



Mohsen BANAN
Email: http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/contact







Contents

Part I
Messaging Medium

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[plain] Part 1: Introductions

Contents

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1  What Is Messaging?

What Is Messaging?

  • Not Same Place – Not Same Time
  • Forms Of Messaging: Paper, Voice, Text, Video, etc.
  • Intrusive Vs. Non-Intrusive
  • Control over its privacy?

2  Where Does Technology End And Medium Begin

Where Does Technology End And Medium Begin

  • Consider The TV. Is its technology all that relevent?
  • It Shapes Us.
  • Who Shapes It?
  • Content Vs Delivery
  • Where Are We With Email?

3  Ramifications Of The Medium On Autonomy, Privacy and Society

Ramifications Of The Medium On Autonomy, Privacy and Society

Compare USPS with Today’s Email.

What are we loosing?

4  Why Are You Using Gmail?

Why Are You Using Gmail?

Really, Why Are You Using Gmail?

The Impact Of Your Use Of Gmail On Me?

What happens when you hit the delete key?

Who reads the legal privacy statements?

What Options Do You Have?

What Options Do We Have?

Part II
History Of Messaging/Email

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[plain] Part 2: History Of Messaging/Email

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5  Success Has Many Fathers

Failure Is An Orphand

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

6  Historical Evolution Of Email

There Were Some Clear Phases

  • Main-frame Email
  • Lan Email Islands
  • Heterogenous Connectivity Of Lan Islans
  • X.400 Promises
  • Internet Email Convergence
  • Corporate Take Over Of Email

What is The Future?

Part III
Messaging Model And Terminology

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[plain] Part 3: Messaging Model And Terminology

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7  X.400

7.1  Basic Model for email (Inter-personal Message Handeling System (MHS)

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<presentation> [plain]Messaging Model and Terminology

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<article> The basic model for email (Inter-personal Message Handeling System (MHS)) mimics the postal service.

7.2  Some Basic MHS (email) Terminology Review

[plain]Some Basic MHS (email) Terminology Review

Since we are going to use email as the example through out, let’s quickly review some basic terms.

  • Message Handling System (MHS) – interpersonal, non-intrusive, either deliver of bounce
  • Message Transfer Agent (MTA), Message Transfer System (MTS) – Examples: Sendmail, qmail, exim, MS-Exchange, ...
  • Mail User Agent (MUA) – Examples: MS-Outlook, pine, Gnome’s Evolution, Emacs’ Gnus, ...
  • WebMail – A Web Based MUA
  • Message Delivery – email is put in your mailbox or pushed to MUA
  • Message Submission – Sending email
  • Message Retrieval – Example: imap

Part IV
Messaging Protocols

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[plain] Part 4: Messaging Protocols

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8  Internet RFCs

Internet RFCs

  1. What Are RFCs
  2. History Of RFCs
  3. RFC Editor Web Site – www.rfc-editor.org
  4. IETF Web Site – www.ietf.org
  5. Internet RFCs Culture, Then and Now – Example My 1998 Concerns – https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg40875.html

9  Messaging Protocols Layered/Structured

How To Remain Current:

  1. Assignment: Update Mohsen’s 2001 list. Make it current for 2016
  2. Email Communications Stack Slide 21 of http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/content/generated/doc.free/mohsen/Records/mobileMsg1999.pdf/Presentation/mobileMsg1999.pdf
  3. Protocol Functions
  4. SMTP Traces (Slides 62-66)

Part V
Class Activities

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[plain] Part 5: Class Activities

Contents

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10  Virtualization

11  Obtaining Your VM Player and Your VM Images

11.1  About Virtual Machines Players And Virtual Machines Images

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  1. Virtualization Host Machine
  2. VM Players
  3. VM Images
  4. Virtualization Guest Machines

Our approach is anchored in use of Virtualization Technology and Virtual Machines.

Here we start with a brief overview of the key concepts, If you are already familiar with the basics of Vitalization, fast forward to the next slide.

In the context of virtualization, your own laptop or desktop, is called the Host Machine.

The software that you use to run virtual machines is called “VM Player”. You have many choices for that.

The particular OS and set of applications that you virtualize are contained in file that is called “VM Image”.

The instance of the Image that you execute is called the “Guest Machine”.

12  Emacs

12.1  Major and Minor Modes

Major and Minor Modes

  • Key Bindings

12.2  Org-Mode

Org-Mode

  • Using Org-Mode For Sys-Admin

Part VI
Assignments

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[plain] Part 6: Assignments

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12.3  Assignments

[plain]Assignments

  • Walk Through The Emacs Manual (Major Modes, Outline Mode)
  • Get Started With Org-Mode. Take notes and create todo lists.
  • Update Protocols List Use The Org Mode To Create The Following Hierarchy
    • Message Transfer (Submission and Delivery) – Submission
    • Routing And Relaying
    • Domain Authentication
    • Spam Detection
    • Mailbox Access
    • Format Standards
    Make the RFCs (docs) be hot URLs in Org-Mode

    Email me the msgRfcsList.org file

  • Page Through the latest RFC-822 – An example of RFC reading

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