slovodefinícia
internet
(mass)
internet
- internet
internet
(msas)
internet
- internet
internet
(msasasci)
internet
- internet
internet
(encz)
Internet,internet n: Zdeněk Brož
internet
(czen)
internet,Internetn: Zdeněk Brož
internet
(gcide)
internet \in"ter*net\ ([i^]n"t[~e]r*n[e^]t), n.
A large network[3] of numerous computers connected through a
number of major nodes of high-speed computers having
high-speed communications channels between the major nodes,
and numerous minor nodes allowing electronic communication
among millions of computers around the world; -- usually
referred to as the internet. It is the basis for the
World-Wide Web.
[PJC]
internet
(wn)
internet
n 1: a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of
computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to
facilitate data transmission and exchange [syn: internet,
net, cyberspace]
internet
(foldoc)
Internet



1. With a lower-case "i", any set of networks interconnected
with routers.

2. With an upper-case "I", the world's collection of
interconnected networks. The Internet is a three-level
hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks,
and stub networks. These include commercial (.com or .co),
university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net)
and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical
networks around the world with various protocols, chiefly the
Internet Protocol.

Until the advent of the web in 1990, the Internet was almost
entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research
departments and was accessed mostly via command line interfaces
such as telnet and FTP. Since then it has grown to become a
ubiquitous aspect of modern information systems, becoming highly
commercial and a widely accepted medium for all sort of customer
relations such as advertising, brand building and online sales
and services. Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom
have, to a great extent, survived this explosive transformation
with the result that the vast majority of information available on
the Internet is free of charge.

While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is the
best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other
protocols in use, supporting applications such as {electronic
mail}, chat, remote login and file transfer.

There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with
InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994.
In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the
US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club,
Demon, PIPEX).

There are several bodies associated with the running of the
Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the {Internet
Engineering and Planning Group}, {Internet Engineering
Steering Group}, and the Internet Society.

See also NYsernet, EUNet.

The Internet Index (http://openmarket.com/intindex) -
statistics about the Internet.

(2015-03-26)
internet
(jargon)
Internet
n.

The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the
ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been
widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for
military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and
including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was conceived from
the start as a way to get most economical use out of then-scarce
large-computer resources. Robert Herzfeld, who was director of ARPA at the
time, has been at some pains to debunk the “survive-a-nuclear-war” myth,
but it seems unkillable.

As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to support what
is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms of distributed
computing, but the infant technology of electronic mail quickly grew to
dominate actual usage. Universities, research labs and defense contractors
early discovered the Internet's potential as a medium of communication
between humans and linked up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting
together a quirky mix of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and
anarchists. The roots of this lexicon lie in those early years.

Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways. The
typical machine/OS combination moved from DEC PDP-10s and PDP-20s,
running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, to PDP-11s and VAXen and Suns running {
Unix}, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel microcomputers. The Internet's
protocols grew more capable, most notably in the move from NCP/IP to {TCP/
IP} in 1982 and the implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was
around this time that people began referring to the collection of
interconnected networks with ARPANET at its core as “the Internet”.

The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines --
connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related research
project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations clamoring to join didn't
fit this profile. In 1986, the National Science Foundation built NSFnet to
open up access to its five regional supercomputing centers; NSFnet became
the backbone of the Internet, replacing the original ARPANET pipes (which
were formally shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994 the pieces of
NSFnet were sold to major telecommunications companies until the Internet
backbone had gone completely commercial.

That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture discovered the
Internet. Once again, the killer app was not the anticipated one —
rather, what caught the public imagination was the hypertext and multimedia
features of the World Wide Web. Subsequently the Internet has seen off its
only serious challenger (the OSI protocol stack favored by European
telecoms monopolies) and is in the process of absorbing into itself many of
the proprietary networks built during the second wave of wide-area
networking after 1980. By 1996 it had become a commonplace even in
mainstream media to predict that a globally-extended Internet would become
the key unifying communications technology of the next century. See also {
the network}.
podobné slovodefinícia
internetová stránka
(msas)
internetová stránka
- website
internetova stranka
(msasasci)
internetova stranka
- website
internet browser
(encz)
internet browser,internetový prohlížeč [it.]
internet site
(encz)
internet site, n:
internetwork
(encz)
internetwork,
transmission control protocol/internet protocol
(encz)
transmission control protocol/internet protocol, n:
hodnocení internetové stránky
(czen)
hodnocení internetové stránky,pagerankn: [it.] Petr Prášek
internet service provider
(czen)
Internet Service Provider,ISP[zkr.]
internetová stránka
(czen)
internetová stránka,siten: Zdeněk Brožinternetová stránka,websiten: Zdeněk Brož
internetové prohlížeče
(czen)
internetové prohlížeče,browsers Zdeněk Brož
internetové stránky
(czen)
internetové stránky,sites Zdeněk Brožinternetové stránky,webn: [it.] Hynek Hanke
internetový prohlížeč
(czen)
internetový prohlížeč,internet browser[it.]
pravidla slušného chování na internetu
(czen)
pravidla slušného chování na internetu,netiquette Martin Dvořák
prohlížení internetových stránek
(czen)
prohlížení internetových stránek,web browsingn: jose
předchůdce internetu
(czen)
předchůdce internetu,ARPA Zdeněk Brož
správce internetové stránky
(czen)
správce internetové stránky,webmastern: [it.]
surfování na internetu
(czen)
surfování na internetu,web browsingn: jose
the internet
(gcide)
internet \in"ter*net\ ([i^]n"t[~e]r*n[e^]t), n.
A large network[3] of numerous computers connected through a
number of major nodes of high-speed computers having
high-speed communications channels between the major nodes,
and numerous minor nodes allowing electronic communication
among millions of computers around the world; -- usually
referred to as the internet. It is the basis for the
World-Wide Web.
[PJC]
internet explorer
(wn)
Internet Explorer
n 1: a commercial browser [syn: Internet Explorer, Explorer,
IE]
internet site
(wn)
internet site
n 1: a computer connected to the internet that maintains a
series of web pages on the World Wide Web; "the Israeli web
site was damaged by hostile hackers" [syn: web site,
website, internet site, site]
transmission control protocol/internet protocol
(wn)
transmission control protocol/internet protocol
n 1: a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the
internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device
to another [syn: {transmission control protocol/internet
protocol}, TCP/IP]
berkeley internet name domain
(foldoc)
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIND

(BIND) An implementation of a DNS server
developed and distributed by the {University of California at
Berkeley}.

Many Internet hosts run BIND, and it is the ancestor of
many commercial implementations.

(1997-12-15)
commercial internet exchange
(foldoc)
Commercial Internet eXchange

(CIX) The CIX is a non-profit, 501(c)6,
trade association coordinating Internet services. Its
member organisations provide TCP/IP or OSI data
internetwork services to the general public. The CIX gives
them unrestricted access to other worldwide networks. It also
takes an interest in the development and future direction of
the Internet.

The CIX provides a neutral forum to exchange ideas,
information, and experimental projects among suppliers of
internetworking services. The CIX broadens the base of
national and international cooperation and coordination among
member networks. Together, the membership may develop
consensus positions on legislative and policy issues of mutual
interest.

The CIX encourages technical research and development for the
mutual benefit of suppliers and customers of data
communications internetworking services. It assists its
member networks in the establishment of, and adherence to,
operational, technical, and administrative policies and
standards necessary to ensure fair, open, and competitive
operations and communication among member networks. CIX
policies are formulated by a member-elected board of
directors.

(http://cix.org/).

(1995-01-13)
common architecture for next generation internet protocol
(foldoc)
Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol
CATNIP

(CATNIP, originally Common Architecture
Technology for Next-generation Internet Protocol)

A network architecture designed to provide a compressed form
of the existing network layer protocols and to integrate
CLNP, IP, and IPX. It provides for any of the
transport layer protocols in use, including TP4, CLTP,
TCP, UDP, IPX, and SPX, to run over any of the network
layer protocol formats: CLNP, IP (version 4), IPX and CATNIP.

CATNIP was originally proposed by Robert L. Ullmann of {Lotus
Development Corporation} on 1993-12-22. It was published as
RFC 1707 in October 1994 but it is not an Internet
standard of any kind.

(1996-03-23)
common internet file system
(foldoc)
Common Internet File System
CIFS

(CIFS) An Internet file system protocol,
based on Microsoft's SMB. Microsoft has given CIFS to the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an Internet Draft.
CIFS is intended to complement existing protocols such as
HTTP, FTP, and NFS.

CIFS runs on top of TCP/IP and uses the Internet's {Domain
Name Service} (DNS). It is optimised to support the slower
speed dial-up connections common on the Internet.

CIFS is more flexible than FTP. FTP operations are carried
out on entire files whereas CIFS is aimed at routine data
access and incorporates high-performance multi-user read and
write operations, locking, and file-sharing semantics.

CIFS is probably closest in functionality to NFS. NFS gives
random access to files and directories, but is stateless.
With CIFS, once a file is open, state about the current access
to that file is stored on both the client and the server.
This allows changes on the server side to be notified to the
clients that are interested.

{Microsoft Overview

(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/base/cifs_smb_protocol_overview.asp)}.

SNIA page (http://snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/).

{CIFS: A Common Internet File System, Paul Leach and Dan Perry
(http://microsoft.com/Mind/1196/CIFS.htm)}.

{IETF Specification. CIFS version 1
(ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-cifs-v1-spec-01.txt)}.

(2003-03-12)
demon internet ltd.
(foldoc)
Demon Internet Ltd.

One of the first company to provide public
Internet access in the UK.

The staff of Demon Systems Ltd., an established software
house, started Demon Internet on 1992-06-01 and it was the
first system in the United Kingdom to offer low cost full
Internet access. It was started with the support of about
100 founder members who discussed the idea on {Compulink
Information Exchange}, and were brave enough to pay a year's
subscription in advance. They aimed to have 200 members in
the first year to cover costs, ignoring any time spent. After
about two weeks they realised they needed nearer 400. By
November 1993 they had over 2000 subscribers and by August
1994 they had about 11000 with 20% per month growth. All
revenues have been reinvested in resources and expansion of
service.

Demon link to Sprintlink in the United States making them
totally independent. They peer with EUNet and PIPEX to
ensure good connectivity in Great Britain as well as having
links to the JANET/JIPS UK academic network. A direct
line into the {Department of Computing, Imperial College,
London (http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk)} from their Central
London Point of Presence (PoP) (styx.demon.co.uk) gives
access to the biggest FTP and Archie site in Europe.

Demon provide local call access to a large proportion of the
UK. The central London PoP provides leased line
connections at a cheaper rate for those customers in the
central 0171 area. Further lines and PoPs are being added
continuously.

Subscribers get allocated an Internet Address and can choose
a hostname within the demon.co.uk domain. They can have
any number of e-mail address at that host.

In October 1994 Demon confirmed a large contract with the
major telecommunications provider Energis. They will supply
guaranteed bandwidth to Demon's 10Mb/s backbone from several
cities and towns. Several PoPs will be phased out and
replaced with others during 1995.

E-mail: .

(ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/).

(http://demon.co.uk/).

Usenet newsgroup: news:demon.announce.

Telephone: +44 (181) 349 0063.

Address: Demon Internet Ltd., 42 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London
N3 1TT, UK.

(1994-11-08)
internet access provider
(foldoc)
Internet Access Provider
IAP
provider

(IAP) A company or other origanisation
which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or
consumers. An IAP purchases an Internet link from another
company that has a direct link to the Internet and resells
portions of that bandwidth to the general public.

For example, an IAP may purchase a T1 link (1.544Mb/s) and
resell that bandwidth in chunks consisting of ISDN (64Kb/s,
128Kb/s) and analog modems (14.4Kb/s, 28.8Kb/s). The IAP's
customer base is likely to include both businesses and
individuals. Individual customers usually connect to the IAP
via a modem and telephone line to a (preferably local) {point
of presence}.

An IAP may also be an Internet Service Provider.

(1996-06-25)
internet adapter
(foldoc)
Internet Adapter

The Internet Adapter (TIA). A program
from Cyberspace Development which runs on a Unix shell
account and acts as a SLIP emulator. A TIA emulated SLIP
account is not quite the same as a real SLIP account but TIA's
SLIP emulation is completely standard in terms of working with
MacTCP-based software on the Macintosh (or WinSock on a
Microsoft Windows machine).

You do not get your own Internet Address as you do with a
real SLIP account, instead, TIA uses the IP number of the
machine it runs on and "redirects" traffic back to you. You
cannot set up your machine as an FTP server, for instance,
since there's no IP number for an FTP client elsewhere to
connect to.

TIA's performance is reportedly good, faster than normal SLIP
in fact, and about as fast as Compressed SLIP. Future
releases will support CSLIP and even PPP.

Cyberspace Development has ported TIA to several versions of
Unix and more are on the way.

TERM is a free program which performs a similar function
between two machines both running Unix.

(http://marketplace.com/).

{Setting up TIA
(http://webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html)}.

Telnet (telnet://marketplace.com).

Gopher (gopher://marketplace.com/).

FTP (ftp://marketplace.com/tia/).

E-mail: .

(1995-04-12)
internet address
(foldoc)
internet address
internet number

(Note lower case "i"). An IP address that
uniquely identifies a node on an internet.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-12)
IP address
Internet address
IP number

(Internet address) The 32-bit number uniquely
identifying a node on a network using Internet Protocol,
as defined in STD 5, RFC 791. An IP address is normally
displayed in dotted decimal notation, e.g. 128.121.4.5.

The address can be split into a network number (or network
address) and a host number unique to each host on the
network and sometimes also a subnet address.

The way the address is split depends on its "class", A, B or C
(but see also CIDR). The class is determined by the high
address bits:

Class A - high bit 0, 7-bit network number, 24-bit host
number. n1.a.a.a 0
internet architecture board
(foldoc)
Internet Architecture Board
IAB

(IAB) The technical body that oversees the development of the
Internet suite of protocols. It has two task forces: the
Internet Engineering Task Force and the {Internet Research
Task Force}.

"IAB" previously stood for Internet Activities Board.

(1994-12-06)
internet assigned numbers authority
(foldoc)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IANA

(IANA) The central registry for various
"assigned numbers": Internet Protocol parameters, such as
port, protocol, and enterprise numbers; and options,
codes, and types. The currently assigned values are listed in
the "Assigned Numbers" document STD 2. To request a number
assignment, e-mail .

(1994-12-06)
internet backbone
(foldoc)
Internet backbone

High-speed networks that carry
Internet traffic.

These communications networks are provided by companies
such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint,
UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3,
OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet
traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points
(NAPs).

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) connect either directly to
a backbone, or they connect to a larger ISP with a connection
to a backbone.

The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may
once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its
length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net
wrapped around the world with many circular paths.

[Map?]

(1998-07-02)
internet chess server
(foldoc)
Internet Chess Server

An interactive meeting-place on the
Internet where people can play chess against each other.

Usenet newsgroup: news:alt.chess.ics.

[Server address?]

(1995-03-25)
internet control message protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Control Message Protocol
ICMP

(ICMP) An extension to the Internet Protocol (IP)
that allows for the generation of error messages, test
packets, and informational messages related to IP. It is
defined in STD 5, RFC 792.

(1999-09-18)
internet corporation for assigned names and numbers
(foldoc)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICANN

(ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed
to
assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol
parameter
assignment and domain name system management. ICANN operates
servers for one the the 13 root DNS server IP addresses.

According to its 2019-02-25 charter on interaction with governments,
ICANN limits itself to providing governments with technical
information on issues that impact its mission and does not lobby.

ICANN Home (http://icann.org/).

{ICANN Organization Engagement with Governments and Standards Bodies

(https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposed-org-engagement-govt-standards-charter-25feb19-en.pdf)}.

(2022-09-11)
internet engineering and planning group
(foldoc)
Internet Engineering and Planning Group
IEPG

(IEPG) (http://iepg.org/).
internet engineering steering group
(foldoc)
Internet Engineering Steering Group
IESG

(IESG) A body composed of the {Internet Engineering Task
Force} Area Directors and the IETF Chair. It provides the
first technical review of Internet standards and is
responsible for day-to-day "management" of the IETF.

(1994-12-08)
internet engineering task force
(foldoc)
Internet Engineering Task Force
IETF

(IETF) The IETF is a large, open
international community of network designers, operators,
vendors and researchers whose purpose is to coordinate the
operation, management and evolution of the Internet and to
resolve short- and mid-range protocol and architectural
issues. It is a major source of proposals for protocol
standards which are submitted to the {Internet Architecture
Board} (IAB) for final approval. The IETF meets three times a
year and extensive minutes are included in the IETF
Proceedings.

The IETF Secretariat, run by The {Corporation for National
Research Initiatives} with funding from the US government,
maintains an index of Internet-Drafts whereas RFCs are
maintained by The Internet Architecture Board.

(http://ietf.org).

(1999-01-27)
internet experiment note
(foldoc)
Internet Experiment Note
IEN

(IEN) A series of reports pertinent to the Internet. IENs
were published in parallel to RFCs and are no longer active.

See also Internet-Draft, Request For Comments.

(1994-12-08)
internet explorer
(foldoc)
Internet Explorer
IE
MSIE

(IE, MSIE) Microsoft's free {World-Wide
Web} browser for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, {Windows
NT}, and Macintosh. Internet Explorer is the main rival to
Netscape Navigator (which runs on many more platforms).
Both support the same core features and offer incompatible
extensions.

Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their {file
system} browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with Windows 95
in an attempt to use their dominance of the desktop
operating system market to force users to abandon Netscape's
browser, which they perceived as a potential threat. This,
and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US
Department of Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999.

(http://microsoft.com/ie/).

(1999-01-31)
internet express
(foldoc)
Internet Express
usa.net

An Internet provider in Colorado Springs, USA. Formerly
called the Community News Service. They provide SLIP
accounts at no extra charge.

(1994-12-08)
internet foundation classes
(foldoc)
Internet Foundation Classes
IFC

(IFC) A library
of classes used in the creation of Java applets with
GUIs.

Created by Netscape, the Internet Foundation Classes provide
GUI elements, as well as classes for Applications Services,
Security, Messaging, and Distributed Objects.

The IFC code, which is exclusively Java, is layered on top of
the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), thus preserving
platform independence.

The AWT and IFC collectively form the {Java Foundation
Classes}, which provide a standardised framework for
developing powerful Java applications.

IFC download (http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ifc/download.html).

(2003-08-17)
internet go server
(foldoc)
Internet Go Server

(IGS) A place for Go players to meet and
play via the Internet.

IGS Home (http://pandanet.co.jp/English/).

(1995-03-17)
internet group management protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Group Management Protocol
IGMP

(IGMP) An extension to the Internet Protocol,
used by IP hosts to report their host group memberships to
immediately-neighbouring multicast routers.

See also MBONE.

Version 1 of IGMP is defined in Appendix 1 of RFC 1112.

Version 2 is proposed in RFC 2236.

(1999-11-08)
internet information server
(foldoc)
Internet Information Server
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft Internet Information Server

(IIS) Microsoft's web server and {FTP
server} for Windows NT.

IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from
workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs
hosting websites that receive millions of hits per day.

Features include innovative web publishing, customisable
tools, wizards, customisable management tools, flexible
administration options, and analysis tools.

IIS makes it easy to share documents and information across a
company intranet or the Internet, and is completely
integrated with Windows NT Directory Services.

IIS 1.0 was released for Windows NT 3.51 and had a limited
feature set.

IIS 2.0 was released with Windows NT 4.0 with a similar
feature set to IIS 1.0.

IIS 3.0 quickly followed with many additions including
Active Server Pages (ASP), ISAPI and ADO 1.0.

IIS 4.0 is built into Windows NT Server 4.0. It includes
ASP 2.0, ISAPI and ADO 1.5.

(http://microsoft.com/iis).

Rival servers include Apache and {Netscape Enterprise
Server}.

(1999-08-04)
internet inter-orb protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IIOP

(IIOP) A protocol which will be mandatory
for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase
of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of: an
IIOP to HTTP gateway which allows CORBA clients to
access WWW resources; an HTTP to IIOP gateway to let WWW
clients access CORBA resources; a web server which makes
resources available by both IIOP and HTTP; web browsers which
can use IIOP as their native protocol.

(http://ansa.co.uk/ANSA/ISF/wwwCorba_1.html).

(1996-04-01)
internet message access protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Message Access Protocol
IMAP

(IMAP) A protocol allowing a client
to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a
server. It permits manipulation of remote message folders
(mailboxes), in a way that is functionally equivalent to
local mailboxes.

IMAP includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing
messages; searching; and selective fetching of message
attributes, texts, and portions thereof. It does not specify
a means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mail
transfer protocol such as SMTP.

See RFC 2060, RFC 2061, and others.

Compare: POP.

(1999-03-14)
internet monthly report
(foldoc)
Internet Monthly Report
IMR

(IMR) Publication designed to communicate to the {Internet
Research Group} the accomplishments, milestones reached, or
problems discovered by the participating organisations.

(1994-12-08)
internet network information center
(foldoc)
Internet Network Information Center
InterNIC

(InterNIC) An umbrella entity created by the
National Science Foundation in Spring 1992, in cooperation
with the Internet community, consisting of Network Information
Service Managers who provided and/or coordinated NSFNet
services. General Atomics provided information services,
AT&T provided directory and database services, and {Network
Solutions, Inc.} (NSI) provided registration services.

In 1999 Internic was replaced by ICANN.

(http://internic.net/).

(http://nic.net/).

(2003-04-16)
internet number
(foldoc)
internet address
internet number

(Note lower case "i"). An IP address that
uniquely identifies a node on an internet.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-12)
internet open trading protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Open Trading Protocol
Open Trading Protocol

(IOTP, Formerly "Open Trading Protocol",
OTP) A specification that provides an interoperable framework
for Internet commerce. It is optimised for the case where the
buyer and the merchant do not have a prior acquaintance and is
payment system independent. It will be able to encapsulate
and support payment systems such as SET, Mondex,
CyberCash's CyberCoin, DigiCash's e-cash, GeldKarte, etc.
IOTP is able to handle cases where such merchant roles as the
shopping site, the payment handler, the deliverer of goods or
services, and the provider of customer support are performed
by different Internet sites.

The IOTP specification is maintained by the IETF {Internet
Open Trading Protocol (trade) Working Group
(http://ietf.org/html.charters/trade-charter.html)}.

(http://otp.org/).

(2001-09-22)
internet protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Protocol
IP

(IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP
protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined
in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless,
best-effort packet switching protocol. It provides
packet routing, fragmentation and re-assembly through
the data link layer.

IPv4 is the version in widespread use and IPv6 was just
beginning to come into use in 2000 but is still not widespread
by 2008.

[Other versions? Dates?]

(2000-12-19)
internet protocol control protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPCP

(IPCP) The Control Protocol for {Internet
Protocol}.

[Details?]

(2002-06-29)
internet protocol version 4
(foldoc)
Internet Protocol version 4
IPv4

The version of Internet Protocol in
widespread use in 2000.

(2000-12-19)
internet protocol version 6
(foldoc)
Internet Protocol version 6
IPv6

(IPv6, IPng, IP next generation) The
most viable candidate to replace the current {Internet
Protocol}. The primary purpose of IPv6 is to solve the
problem of the shortage of IP addresses.

The following features have been purposed: 16-byte addresses
instead of the current four bytes; embedded encryption - a
32-bit Security Association ID (SAID) plus a variable length
initialisation vector in packet headers; user
authentication (a 32-bit SAID plus variable length
authentication data in headers); autoconfiguration
(currently partly handled by {Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol}); support for delay-sensitive traffic - a 24 bit
flow ID field in headers to denote voice or video, etc.

One possible solution is based on the TUBA protocol (RFC
1347, 1526, 1561) which is itself based on the OSI
Connectionless Network Protocol (CNLP). Another is TP/IX
(RFC 1475) which changes TCP and UDP headers to give a
64-bit IP address, a 32-bit port number, and a 64-bit
sequence number.

RFC 1550 is a white paper on IPng.

IPv6.org (http://ipv6.org/).

["Doubts About IPng could create TCP/IP chaos", Johna Till
Johnson, Data Communications, Nov 1994].

(2004-06-17)
internet provider
(foldoc)
Internet Service Provider
Internet provider

(ISP) A company which provides other
companies or individuals with access to, or presence on, the
Internet. Most ISPs are also Internet Access Providers;
extra services include help with design, creation and
administration of websites, training and
administration of intranets and domain name registration.

(2005-06-19)
internet public library
(foldoc)
Internet Public Library

(IPL) A project at the University of Michigan School of
Information and Library Studies to provide an on-line, 24 hour
public library, chaired by an assemblage of librarians and
information industry professionals. The library aims to
provide library services to a target audience estimated to
number 1/4 of the entire American population by the end of the
century.

The Internet Public Library is scheduled to go on-line in
March 1995. Among the first services will be on-line
reference; youth services; user education; and professional
services for librarians.

(http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/).

(telnet://ipl.sils.umich.edu/).

Mailing list: majordomo@sils.umich.edu.

(1995-07-20)
internet registry
(foldoc)
Internet Registry

(IR) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has the
discretionary authority to delegate portions of its
responsibility and, with respect to network address and
Autonomous System identifiers, has lodged this
responsibility with the IR. The IR function is performed by
the Defense Data Network Network Information Center.
internet relay chat
(foldoc)
Internet Relay Chat
IRC

(IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A
client-server chat system of large (often worldwide)
networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet
servers, each accepting connections from client programs,
one per user.

The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities
overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular
folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks.
Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some
conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous
native jargon (see the entry for "chat").

The largest and first IRC network is EFNet, with a smaller
breakaway network called the Undernet having existed since
1992, and dozens of other networks having appeared (and
sometimes disappeared) since.

See also nick, bot, op.

{Yahoo's IRC index
(http://yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/IRC/)}.

(1998-01-25)
internet research steering group
(foldoc)
Internet Research Steering Group
IRSG

(IRSG) The "governing body" of the {Internet
Research Task Force}.

(1994-12-08)
internet research task force
(foldoc)
Internet Research Task Force
IRTF

(IRTF) The IRTF is chartered by the {Internet Architecture
Board} to consider long-term Internet issues from a
theoretical point of view. It has Research Groups, similar to
Internet Engineering Task Force Working Groups, which are
each tasked to discuss different research topics. Multi-cast
audio/video conferencing and privacy enhanced mail are
samples of IRTF output.

(1994-12-08)
internet security association and key management protocol
(foldoc)
Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
ISAKMP

(ISAKMP) The definitions and procedures
for authenticating communication between 2 peers. This
includes the creation and management of {Security
Associations}, key generation techniques, and {threat
mitigation}. ISAKMP is proposed in RFC 2408.

(2000-02-08)
internet server application programming interface
(foldoc)
Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISAPI

(ISAPI) Microsoft's programming interface
between applications and their Internet Server. Active
Servers created with ISAPI extensions can be complete
in-process applications themselves, or can "connect" to other
services. ISAPI is used for the same sort of functions as
CGI but uses Microsoft Windows dynamic link libraries
(DLL) for greater efficiency. The server loads the DLL the
first time a request is received and the DLL then stays in
memory, ready to service other requests until the server
decides it is no longer needed. This minimises the overhead
associated with executing such applications many times.

An HTTP server can unload ISAPI application DLLs to free
memory or preload them to speed up the first access.
Applications can also be enhanced by ISAPI filters

(1997-01-06)
internet service provider
(foldoc)
Internet Service Provider
Internet provider

(ISP) A company which provides other
companies or individuals with access to, or presence on, the
Internet. Most ISPs are also Internet Access Providers;
extra services include help with design, creation and
administration of websites, training and
administration of intranets and domain name registration.

(2005-06-19)
internet society
(foldoc)
Internet Society
ISOC

(ISOC) A non-profit, professional membership
organisation which facilitates and supports the technical
evolution of the Internet, stimulates interest in and
educates the scientific and academic communities, industry and
the public about the technology, uses and applications of the
Internet, and promotes the development of new applications for
the system. The Society provides a forum for discussion and
collaboration in the operation and use of the global Internet
infrastructure.

The Internet Society publishes a quarterly newsletter, the
Internet Society News, and holds an annual conference, INET.
The development of Internet technical standards takes place
under the auspices of the Internet Society with substantial
support from the {Corporation for National Research
Initiatives} under a cooperative agreement with the US Federal
Government.

(http://info.isoc.org/).

(1994-10-27)
internet telephony
(foldoc)
IP Telephony
Internet Telephony
IPT

(IPT, Internet Telephony) Use of IP data
connections to exchange voice and fax data that have
traditionally been carried over the {public switched telephone
network}.

During the late 1990s, an increasing number of telephone calls
have been routed over the Internet. Calls made in this way
avoid PSTN charges. Unlike traditional telephony, IP
telephony is relatively unregulated.

Companies providing these services are known as {Internet
Telephony Service Providers} (ITSPs). They include telephone
companies, cable TV companies and Internet Service Providers
(ISPs).

There are still many problems with voice quality, latency,
compression algorithms, and quality of service.

Voice over IP is an organised effort to standardise IP
telephony.

See also Computer Telephone Integration.

{Internet Telephony Overview
(http://fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/projects/ipt/)}.

(1999-03-17)
internet telephony service providers
(foldoc)
Internet Telephony Service Providers
ITSP

(ITSP) Companies providing IP Telephony.

(1999-04-26)
internet worm
(foldoc)
Internet Worm
Great Worm

The November 1988 worm perpetrated by
Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took
advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program,
Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute
itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm
itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on
machines it infected, which quickly used up all available
processor time on those systems.

Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare
elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle
Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste
to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were
known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the
connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating
watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to
make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything
before or since.

(1995-01-12)
internet-draft
(foldoc)
Internet-Draft
I-D

(I-D) A draft working document of the {Internet Engineering
Task Force}, its Areas, and its Working Groups. As the name
implies, Internet-Drafts are purely discussion documents with
no formal status. They are valid for a maximum of six months
and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents
at any time. Very often, an I-D is a precursor to a {Request
For Comments}.

(1994-12-08)
internetwork packet exchange
(foldoc)
Internetwork Packet eXchange
IPX

(IPX) A network layer protocol initially
developed at XEROX Corporation and made popular by {Novell,
Inc.} as the basic protocol in its Novell NetWare {file
server} operating system.

A router with IPX routing can interconnect {Local Area
Networks} so that Netware clients and servers can
communicate.

The SPX transport layer protocol runs on top of IPX.

(1997-03-04)
internetworking
(foldoc)
internetworking

The interconnection of two or more networks, usually {local
area networks} so that data can pass between hosts on the
different networks as though they were one network. This
requires some kind of router or gateway.

(1994-11-30)
microsoft internet information server
(foldoc)
Internet Information Server
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft Internet Information Server

(IIS) Microsoft's web server and {FTP
server} for Windows NT.

IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from
workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs
hosting websites that receive millions of hits per day.

Features include innovative web publishing, customisable
tools, wizards, customisable management tools, flexible
administration options, and analysis tools.

IIS makes it easy to share documents and information across a
company intranet or the Internet, and is completely
integrated with Windows NT Directory Services.

IIS 1.0 was released for Windows NT 3.51 and had a limited
feature set.

IIS 2.0 was released with Windows NT 4.0 with a similar
feature set to IIS 1.0.

IIS 3.0 quickly followed with many additions including
Active Server Pages (ASP), ISAPI and ADO 1.0.

IIS 4.0 is built into Windows NT Server 4.0. It includes
ASP 2.0, ISAPI and ADO 1.5.

(http://microsoft.com/iis).

Rival servers include Apache and {Netscape Enterprise
Server}.

(1999-08-04)
minnesota internet users essential tool
(foldoc)
Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool

(Minuet) An integrated package for IBM PC
that includes modules for electronic mail (using the POP
protocol), Gopher, telnet, Usenet news and FTP.
Minuet provides an easy-to-use, mouse-driven {graphical user
interface} via the TurboVision libraries. It is a TCP/IP
client that runs over any type of TCP/IP network including
Ethernet and SLIP. It will work with either {static IP
address}es or dynamic IP addresses (bootp).

{FAQ
(http://micro.umn.edu/products/minuet/minuet-1.html)}.
(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/pc/minuet/beta16/minuarc.exe).

(1995-04-10)
multimedia internet mail extensions
(foldoc)
Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions

Called Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions in the RFC.

[Is this an old name for it?]
multipurpose internet mail extensions
(foldoc)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME

(MIME) A standard for multi-part,
multimedia electronic mail messages and web
hypertext documents on the Internet. MIME provides the
ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics,
audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 2045, RFC 2046,
RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049, and BCP0013. It uses
mimencode to encode binary data into base 64 using a
subset of ASCII.

{FAQ

(http://cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mime-faq/top.html)}.

(1995-04-04)
packet internet groper
(foldoc)
ping
Packet InterNet Groper
ping command
pinging

(ping, originally contrived to match
submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse) A
program written in 1983 by Mike Muuss (who also wrote TTCP)
used to test reachability of destinations by sending them one,
or repeated, ICMP echo requests and waiting for replies.
Since ping works at the IP level its server-side is often
implemented entirely within the operating system kernel
and is thus the lowest level test of whether a remote host is
alive. Ping will often respond even when higher level,
TCP-based services cannot.

Sadly, Mike Muuss was killed in a road accident on 2000-11-20.

The term is also used as a verb: "Ping host X to see if it is
up."

The Unix command "ping" can be used to do this and to
measure round-trip delays.

The funniest use of "ping" was described in January 1991 by
Steve Hayman on the Usenet group comp.sys.next. He was
trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP
Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine. Using the sound
recording feature on the NeXT, he wrote a script that
repeatedly invoked ping, listened for an echo, and played back
the recording on each returned packet. This caused the
machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ... ping ..."
as long as the network was up. He turned the volume to
maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked,
and found a faulty tee connector in no time.

Ping did not stand for "Packet InterNet Groper", Dave Mills
offered this backronym expansion some time later.

See also ACK, ENQ, traceroute, spray.

{The Story of the Ping Program
(http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html)}.

Unix manual page: ping(8).

(2005-06-22)
platform for internet content selection
(foldoc)
Platform for Internet Content Selection
PICS

(PICS) A standard for metadata associated with web
content, originally designed to help parents and teachers
control what children access on the Internet, but also used
for code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on
which other rating services and filtering software have been
built.

(http://w3.org/PICS).

(2001-03-29)