The Internet, an autonomous, interconnected network, loosely structured international cooperation, facilitates host-to - host communication, voluntarily following transparent protocols and procedures set out in the Internet standards. There also are a number of disconnected Internet sites that do not connect to the Internet, but use Internet standards, for example, interconnected network sets. (The 1602 RFC).
Nobody owns the internet or actually
regulates it. Alternatively, Internet engagement is the result of voluntary
Internet involvement. To addition to complying with these requirements, many
internet providers already allow public access to their networks.
The digital Web consists of these
providers' mutual interconnection and cooperation. Roughly 300 service
providers are currently interconnected with the Internet (beginning in 1996).
1. Internet Society (ISOC): The Internet Society (ISOC) is a professional
organization that is concerned with the development and advancement of the
Internet worldwide, its use and its financial, political and technological
issues. The approval of the IAB nominations from the candidates sent by the
Nominating Committee of the IAB is the responsibility of ISOC Trustees. (RFC
1718).
2. Internet Architecture Board (IAB): The ISOC is a technical advisory committee of the
Internet Architecture Board (IAB). It is chartered to control the internet
infrastructure and protocols and to serve as an body through which IESG
decisions can be appealed in the form of the Internet standard procedure. The
IAB is responsible for the approval of IESG appointments by the candidates
submitted by the IETF committee of nominations. (RFC 1718)
3. Internet Engineering Steering
Group (IESG): The IESG is responsible
for the strategic control of IETF activities and the Internet Standards System.
This administers the process as part of the ISOC according to the rules and
procedures that the ISOC trustees have ratified. In addition to the
endorsements under Internet standards, IESG is specifically responsible for
actions related to the entry and movement along the "standards line"
of the internet.
4. Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF): The IETF is a loosely
structured community of individuals who make technical and other contributions
to the Internet and its technological innovation and development. This is the
primary body interested in creating new Internet standards. The mission
consists of:
- Identification and offer of solutions
to urgent organizational and technological internet issues.
- Specifies development or use of
protocols and the short-term framework for Internet resolution of these
technical problems.
- Recommendations on the
standardization of protocols and protocol use in the Internet to an
Network infrastructure steering group (IESG).
- The transition of technology from the
IRTF to a larger network population is facilitated.
- providing a forum for the sharing
between suppliers, customers, analysts, agency contractors and network
managers of knowledge within the Internet community.
- The IETF consists of 8 operating
units. Applications, Internet, management of the Network, operational
needs, routing, security, transportation and user services, etc. One or
two area managers are in each region. The IESG is established by the area
managers along with the IETF / IESG chair.
There are a variety of working groups
in each region. A working group is a community of people who work for a certain
cause under a charter. This purpose could be to create an knowledge paper,
create a specification of a protocol or fix problems on the Internet. Many
groups of work have a final life. Which is, when a working party achieves its
target, it dissolves. As with IETF, a working group does not have formal
membership. Unofficially, a member of the working group is someone on the
mailing list of the working group, but everyone can attend a meeting of the
Working Group. (RFC 1718).
5. Internet Assigned Number Authority
(IANA): Numbers, keywords and
other parameters to be allocated are used in several protocol specifications.
E.g. version numbers, protocol numbers, port numbers and MIBs. The IAB has
assigned the responsibility of assigning these protocol parameters to the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The IANA shall publish in RFCs the
"Assigned Numbers" table of all currently allocated numbers and
parameters. (RFC 1502).
6. RFC Editor: As part of the "Request for Comments" (RFC)
document sequence, every version of a specification is written. This collection
of archives is the official outlet for the publication of IESG, IAB, and the
internet culture documents and other publications. A variety of internet hosts
provide RFCs for anonymous FTP.
As part of the initial ARPA
wide-ranging networking (ARPANET) initiative, the RFC networking documents were
introduced in 1969 (see Appendix A for glossary acronyms). A variety of
subjects occupy RFCs, from early debate on new research ideas to Internet
status memoranda. Under the general guidance of IAB, RFC publishing is the sole
responsibility of the RFC publisher. (RFC 1502)
7. InterNIC: Two main components are found in InterNIC, the
Internet Network Information Centre. AT&T provides directory and database
services, primarily Internet web sites, which are used by Whois to find users,
networks and domains. Including domain name registration, Network Solutions,
Inc. offers registry services. InterNIC, which was initially supported by the
NSF, was autonomous.
0 Comments