Group:
electronic mail
Topic:
client-server model for distributed systems
Topic:
communication port
Topic:
communication protocols
Topic:
reliable communication
Topic:
standards
Topic:
World-Wide Web
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Summary
The Internet combines separately administrated networks into a coherent whole. It masks transient failures and enables world-wide communcation. Every entity on the Internet has an address and optional name. (cbb 8/06)
Subtopic: what is the Internet 
| Quote: the Internet is a packet switched communications facility; a network of networks connected by gateways using store and forward packet forwarding
| | Quote: the Internet integrates separately administrated networks into a common utility [»clarDD8_1988]
| | Quote: the Internet connected the ARPANET with the ARPA packet radio network using packet switched gateways [»clarDD8_1988]
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Subtopic: reliability
| Quote: the ordering of goals for the Internet is important: survivability, multiple types of services, ..., accountability [»clarDD8_1988]
| | Quote: except for total partition, the Internet masks all transient failures; must protect the state about an on-going conversation [»clarDD8_1988]
| | Quote: Internet designed for military survivability and not for accountability; accountability not needed in wartime
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Subtopic: security
| Quote: internet security made worse by complexity, rapid change, connectivity, more users, anonymous, democratic [»zippJ6_2001]
| | Quote: authentication and key distribution must be extensible to large internetworks of many domains [»jansP4_1997]
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Subtopic: naming
| Quote: Internet's hierarchical names allows decentralized name management and growth [»suZS8_1982]
| | Quote: an Internet domain is a naming authority [»suZS8_1982]
| | Quote: an Internet domain consists of a concatenation of simple names
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Subtopic: implementation
| Quote: transporting a datagram is the building block of the Internet; 100 bytes minimum, reasonable reliability, addressing; extremely successful [»clarDD8_1988]
| | Quote: the Internet separates TCP from IP to allow other transports that optimize delay or bandwidth instead of reliability [»clarDD8_1988]
| | Quote: ISO Layer 3 is the network layer; handles routing, switching and relaying within a single network or an internetwork [»millLJ_1981]
| | Quote: build internets from flows, packet sequences from source to destination; helps resource management and accountability; gateways keep track of soft, flow state [»clarDD8_1988]
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Subtopic: history
Quote: the Internet connected the ARPANET with the ARPA packet radio network using packet switched gateways
[»clarDD8_1988]
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Related Topics
Group: electronic mail (12 topics, 170 quotes)
Topic: client-server model for distributed systems (25 items)
Topic: communication port (40 items)
Topic: communication protocols (62 items)
Topic: reliable communication (29 items)
Topic: standards (12 items)
Topic: World-Wide Web
(42 items)
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