CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ipv4, National Science Foundation, Aadhaar

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

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Chapter 13: bts of how the internet works. The internet belongs to different entities including individuals, universities, government agencies, and private companies. Several nonprofit organizations and user groups are responsible for the internet"s management. The national science foundation (nsf) still pays for a large portion of the internet"s infrastructure and funds research and development for new technologies: main source of funding is federal taxes, other countries also pay. Circuit switching: a dedicated connection is formed between two points (such as two people on phones) and the connection remains active for the duration of the transmission: circuit switching is inefficient when applied to computers. The internet uses a suite of protocols for transmitting data called tcp/ip, short for. Ip is responsible for sending the information from one computer to another. Ip address: a unique identification number that defines each computer, service, or other device connected to the internet. Ip addresses must be registered with the internet corporation for.