Internet

Impact of the internet in our world today

The impact of the internet contributes a big role in the world today it provides both good and bad effects in our society. Good in a way that almost everything is accessible through the internet. We are able to pay bills, shop online, socialize online, and much more. If we need information, all is a click away. The bad side of this is that is it all available in the internet which makes such things as pornographic materials and hacking of accounts available to all who has the knows on this.


Give a brief description of the following Internet organizations

ISOC – The Internet Society (ISOC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy. We are dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

IAB- the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society(ISOC).

IESG - is an acronym for the Internet Engineering Steering Group. This group is assigned with the responsibility of technical management of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which concentrates producing high quality and relevant technical documents for the betterment of the internet. The IESG provides technical management for all the activities conducted by IETF and the Internet Standard Process.

IRTF - The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making. The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) promotes research of importance to the evolution of the Internet by creating focused, long-term research groups working on topics related to Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology.

IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. It is an open standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements. All participants and managers are volunteers, though their work is usually funded by their employers or sponsors; for instance, the current chairperson is funded by VeriSign and the U.S. government's National Security Agency.

IANA - The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers. IANA is operated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also known as ICANN.

InterNIC - The Internet Network Information Center, known as InterNIC, was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name and IP address allocations from 1972 until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It was accessed through the domain name internic.net, with email, FTP and World Wide Web services run at various times by SRI, Network Solutions, Inc and AT&T.

ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, play /ˈaɪkæn/ eye-kan) is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998[1] to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

ICANN is responsible for managing the Internet Protocol address spaces (IPv4 and IPv6) and assignment of address blocks to regional Internet registries, for maintaining registries of Internet protocol identifiers, and for the management of the top-level domain name space (DNS root zone), which includes the operation of root nameservers.

Arrange the organizations in chronological order
1. InterNIC
2. ISOC
3. IETF
4. IRTF
5. IANA
6. IAB
7. IESG
8. ICANN


What made the internet reliable and efficient?

The internet is reliable in many ways namely speed and convenience.
Speed because we can search any information through the net in just seconds.
Convenience because we can to most of things from the comfort of our own home like shopping paying of bills and much more.
The internet can also be efficient in transferring of data’s and communication for this is the fastest means of transferring data and communication in long distances.


Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Architecture_Board
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/
http://icannwiki.com/index.php/IESG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Task_Force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNIC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN