Standards+and+protocol

=Standard and Protocol = Definition: Standards and protocols are technical rules and conventions that enable compatibility and therefore facilitate communication or interoperability between different IT systems and their components. They might govern the design and use of hardware, software and information. For example, the communication protocols used on the internet, the ASCII representations for characters, or the design of the printer port on a personal computer are all governed by standards


 * media type="youtube" key="zyL1Fud1Z1c?fs=1" height="337" width="554" || Internet Protocol.

This is a very helpful video that breaks down Internet Protocol and helps us understand exactly how it works. ||
 * ISOC's Standards and Technology Activities

 The Internet is built on technical standards, which allow devices, services, and applications to be interoperable across a wide and dispersed network of networks. Internet standards are developed by group of organisations which operate under the auspices of the Internet Society (ISOC). ISOC is the organisational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) — the standards setting and research arms of the Internet community. These are open organisations, relying on transparent, bottom-up processes to build consensus. Thousands of people from around the world participate in the process and the standards they develop are free and accessible to everyone. The Internet also relies on several other types of technical standards, developed by a range of other organisations. For example, the Internet makes extensive use of the telecommunications infrastructure standards developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU); hardware standards developed by bodies such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); and software standards, such as those developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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 * [[image:http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/%7Eptw/teaching/internet/ip-suite2.gif width="426" height="312"]] || This video explains Internet Protocol and the picture the the left.

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The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched inter-network using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP. IP is a protocol. Simply said, a protocol is a set of rules governing how things work in a certain technology, so that there is some kind of standardization. When put into a network communication context, a protocol is the set of rules governing how packets are transmitted over a network. When you have a protocol, you are sure that all machines on a network (or in the world, when it comes to the Internet), however different they might be, speak the 'same language' and can integrate into the whole framework. IP is probably the most common protocol over the Internet. It is the set of rules governing how packets are transmitted over the Internet. The IP protocol standardizes the way machines over the Internet or any IP network forward or route their packets based on their IP addresses.

What are Internet Standards?

In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard (STD) is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet. Internet Standards are created and published by the Internet Engineering Force Task (IETF). At the technical and developmental level, the Internet is made possible through creation, testing and implementation of Internet Standards. These standards are developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The standards are then considered by the Internet Engineering Steering Force, with appeal to the Internet Architecture Board, and promulgated by the Internet Society as international standards. The RFC Editor is responsible for preparing and organizing the standards in their final form. The standards may be found at numerous sites distributed throughout the world, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (Application layer, create our message.) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TCP - Transmission Control Protocol (Transport layer) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">IP - Internet Protocol (Internet Layer) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">FTP: File Transport Protocol (Application layer) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DNS: Domain Name System (Application layer) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">UDP: User Datagram Protocol (Transport layer) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Physical network layer) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #941ea9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Articles Related to Standards and Protocols:

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Standards and Protocols within businesses

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">Just like requirements and specifications define what a project is supposed to accomplish and how it is supposed to be accomplished, standards and protocols provide instructions for the implementation of a project. Standards and protocols, however, are often implicit instructions. Requirements may not always say that a project must be completed in accordance with a certain standard — this compliance is often assumed in much the same way that an American company may not specify that a report be written in English. Standards are frequently the rules of a profession or field, and protocols are typically the instructions and tools.