External Data Representation - History

History

XDR was developed in the mid 1980s at Sun Microsystems, and first widely published in 1987. XDR became an IETF standard in 1995.

The XDR data format is in use by many systems, including:

  • Network File System (protocol)
  • NDMP Network Data Managerment Protocol
  • Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
  • Legato NetWorker backup software (later sold by EMC)
  • NetCDF (a scientific data format)
  • The R language and environment for statistical computing
  • High Level Architecture (simulation)
  • The HTTP-NG Binary Wire Protocol
  • The SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, to serialize/deserialize compiled JavaScript code
  • The Ganglia distributed monitoring system
  • The sFlow network monitoring standard
  • The libvirt virtualization library, API and UI
  • The Firebird (database server) for Remote Binary Wire Protocol

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