Standards Organizations and RFCs

Several organizations have been instrumental in the development of TCP/IP and the Internet. Another way in which TCP/IP reveals its military roots is in the quantity and obscurity of its acronyms. Still, a few organizations in the past and present of TCP/IP deserve mention, as follows:

  • Internet Advisory Board (IAB)— The governing board that sets policy for the Internet and sees to the further development of TCP/IP standards.

  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)— The branch of the IAB that studies and rules on engineering issues. The IETF is divided into workgroups that study particular aspects of TCP/IP and the Internet, such as applications, routing, network management, and so forth.

  • Internet Research Task ...

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