A very fine example of such a book is "RFC Jitten" published in Japanese
by ASCII Corporation. It's as thick as your average phone book and
contains lots of illustrations, discussions and explanations. While my
Japanese certainly isn't up to writing a book review of this tome, it's
pretty clear that they did a really thorough job of putting stuff in
context. The book is dedicated to Jon Postel who wrote the foreword
shortly before he passed away.
Ole
Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher
The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems, Office of the CSO
Tel: +1 408-527-8972
e-mail: ole(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com
URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
* See you at INET 2000, Yokohama, Japan July 18-21
http://www.isoc.org/inet2000