Where It All Began (?)
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When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the World Wide
Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
Bill Clinton, announcing the Next Generation Internet Initiative, 1996
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During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Gore, 1999
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Internet RFCs (Requests For Comments)
The Internet is not (yet) a commerical product - instead a large, active
research project.
Reports of work, proposals for protocols,
and protocol standards appear as a series of nearly 8800
technical reports termed RFCs.
Recently:
RFC 9233:
Internationalized Domain Names for Applications 2008 (IDNA2008) and Unicode 12.0.0.
The whole RFC collection may be searched and read via:
(and read the collection of humorous April
Fools' Day Request for Comments).
CITS3002 Computer Networks, Lecture 7, The TCP/IP protocol suite, p6, 17th April 2024.
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CITS3002