That implementation was fully interoperable with other TCPs, but was tailored to the application suite and performance objectives of the personal computer, and showed that workstations, as well as large time-sharing systems, could be a part of the Internet.
It included an emphasis on the complexity of protocols and the pitfalls they often introduce. This book was influential in spreading the lore of packet switching networks to a very wide community. This change from having a few networks with a modest number of time-shared hosts the original ARPANET model to having many networks has resulted in a number of new concepts and changes to the underlying technology.
First, it resulted in the definition of three network classes A, B, and C to accommodate the range of networks. Class A represented large national scale networks small number of networks with large numbers of hosts ; Class B represented regional scale networks; and Class C represented local area networks large number of networks with relatively few hosts. A major shift occurred as a result of the increase in scale of the Internet and its associated management issues.
To make it easy for people to use the network, hosts were assigned names, so that it was not necessary to remember the numeric addresses. Originally, there were a fairly limited number of hosts, so it was feasible to maintain a single table of all the hosts and their associated names and addresses. The shift to having a large number of independently managed networks e.
The DNS permitted a scalable distributed mechanism for resolving hierarchical host names e. The increase in the size of the Internet also challenged the capabilities of the routers.
Originally, there was a single distributed algorithm for routing that was implemented uniformly by all the routers in the Internet.
As the number of networks in the Internet exploded, this initial design could not expand as necessary, so it was replaced by a hierarchical model of routing, with an Interior Gateway Protocol IGP used inside each region of the Internet, and an Exterior Gateway Protocol EGP used to tie the regions together.
This design permitted different regions to use a different IGP, so that different requirements for cost, rapid reconfiguration, robustness and scale could be accommodated. Not only the routing algorithm, but the size of the addressing tables, stressed the capacity of the routers. New approaches for address aggregation, in particular classless inter-domain routing CIDR , have recently been introduced to control the size of router tables.
As the Internet evolved, one of the major challenges was how to propagate the changes to the software, particularly the host software. Looking back, the strategy of incorporating Internet protocols into a supported operating system for the research community was one of the key elements in the successful widespread adoption of the Internet.
This enabled defense to begin sharing in the DARPA Internet technology base and led directly to the eventual partitioning of the military and non- military communities. Thus, by , Internet was already well established as a technology supporting a broad community of researchers and developers, and was beginning to be used by other communities for daily computer communications. Electronic mail was being used broadly across several communities, often with different systems, but interconnection between different mail systems was demonstrating the utility of broad based electronic communications between people.
At the same time that the Internet technology was being experimentally validated and widely used amongst a subset of computer science researchers, other networks and networking technologies were being pursued. The usefulness of computer networking — especially electronic mail — demonstrated by DARPA and Department of Defense contractors on the ARPANET was not lost on other communities and disciplines, so that by the mids computer networks had begun to spring up wherever funding could be found for the purpose.
The U. NSFNET programs to explicitly announce their intent to serve the entire higher education community, regardless of discipline. Indeed, a condition for a U. When Steve Wolff took over the NSFNET program in , he recognized the need for a wide area networking infrastructure to support the general academic and research community, along with the need to develop a strategy for establishing such infrastructure on a basis ultimately independent of direct federal funding.
Policies and strategies were adopted see below to achieve that end. It had seen the Internet grow to over 50, networks on all seven continents and outer space, with approximately 29, networks in the United States. A key to the rapid growth of the Internet has been the free and open access to the basic documents, especially the specifications of the protocols.
The beginnings of the ARPANET and the Internet in the university research community promoted the academic tradition of open publication of ideas and results. However, the normal cycle of traditional academic publication was too formal and too slow for the dynamic exchange of ideas essential to creating networks. In a key step was taken by S. These memos were intended to be an informal fast distribution way to share ideas with other network researchers. At first the RFCs were printed on paper and distributed via snail mail.
Jon Postel acted as RFC Editor as well as managing the centralized administration of required protocol number assignments, roles that he continued to play until his death, October 16, When some consensus or a least a consistent set of ideas had come together a specification document would be prepared. Such a specification would then be used as the base for implementations by the various research teams.
The open access to the RFCs for free, if you have any kind of a connection to the Internet promotes the growth of the Internet because it allows the actual specifications to be used for examples in college classes and by entrepreneurs developing new systems. Email has been a significant factor in all areas of the Internet, and that is certainly true in the development of protocol specifications, technical standards, and Internet engineering. The very early RFCs often presented a set of ideas developed by the researchers at one location to the rest of the community.
After email came into use, the authorship pattern changed — RFCs were presented by joint authors with common view independent of their locations. The use of specialized email mailing lists has been long used in the development of protocol specifications, and continues to be an important tool.
The IETF now has in excess of 75 working groups, each working on a different aspect of Internet engineering. Each of these working groups has a mailing list to discuss one or more draft documents under development. When consensus is reached on a draft document it may be distributed as an RFC.
This unique method for evolving new capabilities in the network will continue to be critical to future evolution of the Internet. The Internet is as much a collection of communities as a collection of technologies, and its success is largely attributable to both satisfying basic community needs as well as utilizing the community in an effective way to push the infrastructure forward.
The early ARPANET researchers worked as a close-knit community to accomplish the initial demonstrations of packet switching technology described earlier. Likewise, the Packet Satellite, Packet Radio and several other DARPA computer science research programs were multi-contractor collaborative activities that heavily used whatever available mechanisms there were to coordinate their efforts, starting with electronic mail and adding file sharing, remote access, and eventually World Wide Web capabilities.
In the late s, recognizing that the growth of the Internet was accompanied by a growth in the size of the interested research community and therefore an increased need for coordination mechanisms, Vint Cerf, then manager of the Internet Program at DARPA, formed several coordination bodies — an International Cooperation Board ICB , chaired by Peter Kirstein of UCL, to coordinate activities with some cooperating European countries centered on Packet Satellite research, an Internet Research Group which was an inclusive group providing an environment for general exchange of information, and an Internet Configuration Control Board ICCB , chaired by Clark.
In , when Barry Leiner took over management of the Internet research program at DARPA, he and Clark recognized that the continuing growth of the Internet community demanded a restructuring of the coordination mechanisms. The ICCB was disbanded and in its place a structure of Task Forces was formed, each focused on a particular area of the technology e.
It of course was only a coincidence that the chairs of the Task Forces were the same people as the members of the old ICCB, and Dave Clark continued to act as chair. This growth was complemented by a major expansion in the community. In addition to NSFNet and the various US and international government-funded activities, interest in the commercial sector was beginning to grow.
As a result, the IAB was left without a primary sponsor and increasingly assumed the mantle of leadership. The hit film, War Games , about a young computer whiz who manages to connect to the super computer at NORAD and almost start World Word III from his bedroom, perfectly captured the mood of the militaries towards the network.
By the mid s the network was widely used by researchers and developers. But it was also being picked up by a growing number of other communities and networks. By then, the network - no longer the private enclave of computer scientists or militaries - had become the Internet, a new galaxy of communication ready to be fully explored and populated. In , during its first phase of popularisation, the global networks connected to the Internet exchanged about Gigabytes GB of traffic per day.
Still, numbers can sometimes be deceptive, as well as frustratingly confusing for the non-expert reader.
What hides beneath their dry technicality is a simple fact: the enduring impact of that first stuttered hello at UCLA on October 29, has dramatically transcended the apparent technical triviality of making two computers talk to each other. For a growing number of users, a mere minute of life on the Internet is to be part, simultaneously, of an endless stream of shared experiences that include, among other things, watching over , hours of video, being exposed to 10 million adverts, playing nearly 32, hours of music and sending and receiving over million emails.
Albeit at different levels of participation, the lives of almost half of the world population are increasingly shaped by this expanding communication galaxy.
We use the global network almost for everything. But there is much more than this. The expansion of the Internet is deeply entangled with the sphere of politics. The more people embrace this new age of communicative abundance , the more it affects the way in which we exercise our political will in this world. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. On the one hand, they needed to be strict enough to ensure the reliable transmission of data. On the other, they needed to be loose enough to accommodate all of the different ways that data might be transmitted.
The military would keep innovating. They would keep building new networks and new technologies. This feature would make the system not only future-proof, but potentially infinite. Eventually, these rules became the lingua franca of the internet. But first, they needed to be implemented and tweaked and tested — over and over and over again.
There was nothing inevitable about the internet getting built. It seemed like a ludicrous idea to many, even among those who were building it. The scale, the ambition — the internet was a skyscraper and nobody had ever seen anything more than a few stories tall.
Even with a firehose of cold war military cash behind it, the internet looked like a long shot. A pair of cables ran from the terminal to the parking lot, disappearing into a big grey van. Inside the van were machines that transformed the words being typed on the terminal into packets of data. These signals radiated through the air to a repeater on a nearby mountain top, where they were amplified and rebroadcast.
With this extra boost, they could make it all the way to Menlo Park, where an antenna at an office building received them. It was here that the real magic began. Inside the office building, the incoming packets passed seamlessly from one network to another: from the packet radio network to Arpanet. To make this jump, the packets had to undergo a subtle metamorphosis. They had to change their form without changing their content. Think about water: it can be vapor, liquid or ice, but its chemical composition remains the same.
This miraculous flexibility is a feature of the natural universe — which is lucky, because life depends on it. The flexibility that the internet depends on, by contrast, had to be engineered. And on that day in August, it enabled packets that had only existed as radio signals in a wireless network to become electrical signals in the wired network of Arpanet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in , when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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