EECS 1520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet Engineering Task Force, Digital Subscriber Line

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Steven Castellucci

Document Summary

Considered a wide area network (wan) of diverse devices. Communication is facilitated using agreed-upon protocols (eg. rule for transmitting & reciveving data) Data travels over the internet using packet switching. Computers on interest are identified using ip address. There are organizations that help standardize protocols & carry out administrative tasks. Internet engineering task force (ietf): contributes technical expertise to recommend future internet development. Internet society (isoc): promotes open development of the internet for global benefit. Internet assigned numbers authority (iana): manages the assignment of ip address on the internet. Ip address is like a phone number which is unique to each number. Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (icann): administrates assignment of domain names on the internet. No one owns the entire i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)et eithe(cid:396), as it is (cid:272)o(cid:373)p(cid:396)ised of (cid:373)a(cid:374)y sepa(cid:396)ate (cid:374)et(cid:449)o(cid:396)ks these networks are each owned and operated by various entities. People access the internet via internet service providers. Built upon long distance networks of telephone companies.