COMM 2411U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intertextuality, Wi-Fi, Margaret Atwood
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Governance in areas where governments cannot preside (businesses, public organizations), they have governance; a set of agreed upon rules and regulations. The internet is regulated through technological agreements (protocols) and laws (copyright, crime, etc. ) Protocols are rules for data transmission agreed upon by all manufacturers of technology (protocols cover things such as bluetooth, wi-fi, etc. ) Protocols are made by global institutions of engineers such as: Internet engineering task force, world wide web consortium (w3c) Icann the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. Icann sets policy for domain name dispute resolution, engages in economic and technical regulation of the domain name supply industry, and controls the allocation and assignment of top-level domains and the top of the internet protocol address hierarchy. An ip address is a unique binary number that identifies its virtual location that is either assigned for a session or permanently.
