PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Internet Engineering Task Force, World Wide Web Consortium, Ipv4
10 Dec 2016
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Chapter 13: behind the scenes: how the internet works. The internet is the largest network that you use and to keep it functioning at peak efficiency, it must be governed and regulated. No one really owns the internet: new uses for the internet are created everyday by a variety of individuals can companies. Who owns the internet: different entities. Several nonprofit organizations and user groups, each with a specialized purpose, are responsible for its management. Some of these organizations include: internet society (isoc), internet. Engineering task force (ietf), internet architecture board (iab), Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (icann), and world wide web consortium (w3c) Many of the functions held by these non-profits were previously handled by the us government contractors. Internet was developed out of a dense project. National science foundation (nsf) pays a large portion of the. Primary source of their funding is tax dollars.
