“Internet Fundamentals and Cyber Security Management,” was a pretty comprehensive writing on the internet from its inception to the format, architecture, standardization and security. One part also mentioned in the Access Science reading was the domain name system which categorizes the IP addresses like a database of information into several main domains: edu, gov, mil, int, net, org and com. According to the author, the internet is a system of networks comprised of interconnected networks with about 150 million hosts in the world (493). As far as Internet standardization, there are several including the ISO and the ITU-T; the latter formed by a United Nation committee. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and several other agencies regulate the internet.
“A Brief Guide to the History of the Internet” provided a 54 year spanned timeline of the history of the Internet. Some of the facts were interesting, other facts I was vaguely familiar with. Based off of the Access Science reading, this is what I got out of that; transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) are essentially how the data is broken down and sent to the right location (Venkatesh). Domain name system is a way to categorize sites into various domains like edu, gov, mil, org and others. Intranets are common among private institutions and use TCP/IP networks as well as FTP and Telnet; telnet allows a user to access and use a host computer.
I also found the history of the internet to be extremely interesting. Particularly, its military applications from it inception.
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