Chapter 2. A Brief History of Networking Standards
This chapter is meant as background material for readers who may not be familiar with all the types of networking standards there are, and the organizations that produce them. Readers who are already familiar with terms like CCITT, OSI, IEEE, IETF, ITU-T, TCP/IP, X.25, and so on can proceed to Chapter 3, Speeds and Feeds [1].
[1] The information in this short chapter is provided for completeness. There is an unwritten rule that all books that have to do with networking must at some point mention the OSI Reference Model.
In practice, there are two kinds of standards, de facto and de jure. The latter are formally created by organizations that are specifically chartered with producing them, and ...
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