Who controls the TCP / IP protocol suite, who is in the definition of new standards and other things like that? In fact,
There are four groups in charge of Internet technology.
1) Internet Society (ISOC, Internet Society) is a promote, support and promotion of Internet and growing hair
Exhibition of professional organizations, which the Internet as a global research communications infrastructure.
2) Internet Structure Committee (IAB, Internet Architecture Board) is a system of technical supervision and coordination
mechanism. It consists of 15 volunteers from different professions and internationally, whose function is responsible for final editing and Internet standards
Technical review. IAB is part of ISOC.
3) Internet engineering task force (IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force) is a set of standards for the near future
Weaving, it is divided into nine areas (applications, routing and addressing, security, etc.). IETF Internet standard specifications to be developed. To help
Help IETF chairman, he has set up the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG, Internet Engineering Steering Group).
4) Internet Research Panel (IR IF, Internet Research Task Force) major long-term research projects.
IRTF and the IETF are subordinate to IAB. Literature [Crocker 1993] provides information on the Internet more detailed internal standardization process
Information thin, but also introduces its early history.
(Excerpt from: "TCP-IP Detailed Volume: Protocol")
tcp / ip protocols discussed by the IETE designated, those who need standardized protocols, had been included in the RFC documents published on the Internet, not only records the protocol specification RFC content, also contains information on the implementation and use of protocols, and experimental aspects Information.
IP protocol specification specified by RFC279. Tcp protocol specification is determined by the number of the document RFC793.
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