McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Chapter 1 Introduction
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 CONTENTS A BRIEF HISTORY PROTOCOLS AND STANDARDS STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS INTERNET STANDARDS INTERNET ADMINISTRATION
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 A BRIEF HISTORY 1.1
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Time Line The following is a list of important Internet events in chronological order: Four-node ARPANET established ARPA hosts implement NCP Development of TCP/IP suite begins An internet tested using TCP/IP UNIX distributed to academic sites.
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., CSNET established TCP/IP becomes the official protocol MILNET was born NSFNET established ARPANET replaced by NSFNET NSFNET became a research network ISPs started.
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Figure 1-1 Internet today
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 PROTOCOLS AND STANDARDS 1.2
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS 1.3
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Standards Creation Committees International Standards Organization (ISO) International Telecommunications Union– Telecommunication Standards Sector (ITU-T) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electronic Industries Association (EIA) American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Forums Regulatory Agencies Frame Relay Forum ATM Forum Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 The websites for the above organizations are given in Appendix G.
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 INTERNET STANDARDS 1.4
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Figure 1-2 Maturity levels of an RFC
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Figure 1-3 Requirement levels of an RFC
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 INTERNET ADMINISTRATION 1.5
McGraw-Hill © ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000 Figure 1-4 Internet Administration