Part 1

1. Who is Jonathan B. Postel and what is he known for?

 WHO MADE much significant contribution to the development of the
internet.

2. Which two related organizations are responsible for managing the

top-level domain name space and the root Domain Name System
(DNS) name servers on the Internet?
 (ICNN) maintain top level domain and (IANA) maintain DNS root zone

3. Vinton Cerf has been called one of main fathers of the Internet. What
Internet organizations did he chair or help found? What Internet
technologies did he help to develop?
 Organizations -ICANN
Technologies are- TCP/IP , MCI MAIL

4. What organization is responsible for publishing Request for

Comments (RFC)?
 Internet research and development community.

5. What do RFC 349 and RFC 1700 have in common?

 Both RFC 349 and RFC 1700 have an Assignment number and
both have wide standard functions. They also offer applications
that offer link, socket, port, and protocol.

6. What RFC number is the ARPAWOCKY? What is it?

 RFC 527
7. Who founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?
 Tim Berners-Lee
8. . Name 10 World Wide Web (WWW) standards that the W3C
develops and maintains?
 XML, HTML, CSS, SSML, SVG, VoiceXML, XHTML, XHTML+ Voice, P3P,
SISR
9. Where is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
headquarters located and what is the significance of its logo?
 Piscataway New Jersey USA.
he IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand
grip rule embedded in
Benjamin Franklin's kite,

10. What is the IEEE standard for the Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
(WPA2) security protocol?
 IEEE 802.11i 11. Yes, the Wi-Fi Alliance organized for non-profit standards
organization.
Their goal of driving the adoption of a single worldwide-accepted standard
for high-speed wireless local area networking.
11. Is the Wi-Fi Alliance a non-profit standards organization? What
is their goal?
 He has been Secretary General of the International Telecommunication
Union, the specialized
agency of the United Nations dedicated to information and communication
technologies, since 2007.

12. Who is Hamadoun Touré?

 He has been Secretary General of the International Telecommunication
Union, the specialized
agency of the United Nations dedicated to information and communication
technologies, since 2007.

13. What is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and

where is it headquartered?
 The ITU, headquartered in Geneva.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an agency of the
United Nations (UN) whose
purpose is to coordinate telecommunication operations and services
throughout the world.

14. Name the three ITU sectors.

 Radio communication (ITU-R)
Telecommunication Standards (ITU-T)
Telecommunication Development (ITU-D)
 15. What does the RS in RS-232 stand for and which organization
introduced it?
 RS-232 is a standard for serial communication transmission of data.
It was introduced by Electronics Industry Association.

16. . What is SpaceWire?

 Space Wire is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the
IEEE 1355 standard of
communications.
17. What is the mission of the ISOC and where are its
headquarters located?
 Their mission is "to promote the open development, evolution and use of
the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world".
Its headquarters in Reston, Virginia, United States,

18. What organizations does the IAB oversee?

 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task
Force (IRTF)

19. What organization oversees the IAB?

 Internet Configuration Control Board

20. When was the ISO founded and where are its headquarters
located?
 23 February 1947, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland,

PART 2
1. How do the Internet standards allow for greater commerce? What
potential problems could we have if we did not have the IEEE?
 It includes global standards for commerce and its access is a global
requirement, and is also globally adopted as a standard commercial
structure for trade and financial transactions.

2. What potential problems could we have if we did not have the

W3C?
 Weak standards in engineering lead to fualts, especially in
telecommuncation compatibility.
3. What can we learn from the example of the Wi-Fi Alliance with
regard to the necessity of networking standards?
 Security in standard form makes reliable financial transactions a reliable
global option. Securely Encrypting financial transactions across
engineering devices.