Lab - Researching Networking Standards Answers

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

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?

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?

4. What organization is responsible for publishing Request for Comments (RFC)?

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

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

7. Who founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?

8. Name 10 World Wide Web (WWW) standards that the W3C develops and maintains?

9. Where is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) headquarters located and what is the 

significance of its logo?

10. What is the IEEE standard for the Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) security protocol?

11. Is the Wi-Fi Alliance a non-profit standards organization? What is their goal?

12. Who is Hamadoun Touré?

13. What is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and where is it headquartered?

14. Name the three ITU sectors?

15. What does the RS in RS-232 stand for and which organization introduced it?

16. What is SpaceWire?

17. What is the mission of the ISOC and where are its headquarters located?

18. What organizations does the IAB oversee?

19. What organization oversees the IAB?

20. When was the ISO founded and where are its headquarters located?



ANSWERS 


Part 1: Research Networking Standards Organizations

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

2. (ICNN) maintain top level domain and (IANA) maintain DNS root zone

3. Organizations -ICANN
 Technologies are- TCP/IP , MCI MAIL

4. Internet research and development community.

5. 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. RFC 527

7. Tim Berners-Lee

8. XML,HTML,CSS,SSML,SVG,VoiceXML,XHTML,XHTML+Voice,P3P,SISR

9. 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. 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. 

12. 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. 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.
Radio communication (ITU-R)
Telecommunication Standards (ITU-T)
Telecommunication Development (ITU-D)

15. RS-232 is a standard for serial communication transmission of data.
It was introduced by Electronics Industry Association.

16. Space Wire is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the IEEE 1355 standard of 
communications

17. 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. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)

19. Internet Configuration Control Board 


20. 23 February 1947, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland,