Editing External Data Representation (section)

==History==
XDR was developed in the mid 1980s at [[Sun Microsystems]], and first widely published in 1987.<ref>{{cite journal |title= XDR: External Data Representation Standard |author= Sun Microsystems |journal= RFC 1014 |year= 1987 |publisher=Network Working Group |doi= 10.17487/RFC1014 |url= http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1014 |access-date= July 11, 2011 |doi-access= free }}</ref>
XDR became an [[IETF]] [[Internet standard|standard]] in 1995.

The XDR data format is in use by many systems, including:
* [[Network File System (protocol)]]
* [[ZFS]] File System
* [[NDMP]] Network Data Management Protocol
* [[Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call]]
* [[EMC NetWorker|Legato NetWorker]] backup software (later sold by EMC)
* [[NetCDF]] (a scientific data format)
* The [[R programming language|R language and environment for statistical computing]]
* The [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-status.html HTTP-NG] [[Binary Wire Protocol]]
* The [[SpiderMonkey (Javascript engine)|SpiderMonkey]] JavaScript engine, to serialize/deserialize compiled JavaScript code
* The [[Ganglia (software)|Ganglia]] distributed monitoring system
* The [[sFlow]] network monitoring standard
* The [[libvirt]] virtualization library, [[Application Programming Interface|API]] and [[User Interface|UI]]
*The [[Firebird (database server)]] for Remote Binary Wire Protocol
* [[Stellar (payment network)|Stellar Payment Network]]