Topics related to defining, describing, measuring the Internet

Links

• The Internet Society
  • ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - coordinates the use of unique names/numbers (identifiers) across the world.
  • A short guide to IP Addressing
• Inernet Systems Consortium
  • Internet Domain Survey...as of 7/17 there are 1.2 billion hosts accessible on the public Internet
• Whois - is a service that allows programs/users to find out who is responsible for a domain name or IP address
  • ICANN's whois web page
  • Accesses global database mapping identifiers with organizations.....
  • Domain Name Protocol is the software service in TCP/IP that automates learning the binding between domain names and IP addresses
• The Internet Components.....
• Organizations to manage shared resources
• IETF
  • See RFC 1796, RFC 2026 (gives backround on IETF process)

last updated: 2/7/2018