| The current incompatibilities of the platforms and tools make it impossible to access existing information through a common interface, leading to waste of time, frustration and obsolete answers to simple data lookup. There is a potential large benefit from the integration of a variety of systems in a way which allows a user to follow links pointing from one piece of information to another one.
– Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau; WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project; 1990. |
The Internet is managed by a roughly democratic group of policy and technical organizations. The technical structure of the Internet is made up of a mix of hierarchical systems, like IP addresses and domain names, and network systems, like packet switching and routing. The following sections provide more information:
- ISOC — Internet Society
- IAB — Internet Architecture Board
- IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force
- IRTF — Internet Research Task Force
- ICANN — Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers
- IANA — Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- NSI — Network Solutions
- Accredited Domain Name Registrars
- NSF — National Science Foundation