8.1 International Organizations
A history of organizations that focus on the Internet would be enough for an independent and very interesting publication. The Internet was born in the USA and was financed for many years by American taxpayers. This situation became no longer viable in the ‘90s resulting in the creation of a new structure of Internet organization. End users participate in financing this structure by paying their Internet providers for connectivity and for registration of their subdomains. Providers then put part of these payments towards the activities of these international organizations.
Two links from the original structure are important for us as ordinary Internet users:
RFC-editor, which publishes the RFC standards (http://www.rfc-editor.org/). This link is a source for Internet standards for us. To better understand the process of Internet standards, it is recommended to look at RFC 2026.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Its home page http://www.iana.org...
