Cable: Internet Resources

• FAQs & RFCs (FAQs are Frequently Asked Questions with answers; RFCs are Requests for Comment; the primary reference documents of Internet standards)

• InterNIC, the Internet Network Information Center
• The Internet Society
• IANA The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
• Network Information Center (NIC) for the .US Domain
• IAB the Internet Architecture Board -- oversees the IETF and others
• IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
• The Tao of IETF A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force
• IRTF the Internet Research Task Force
• W3C The World Wide Web Consortium
• CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics - where the Web was invented
• The Bandwidth Conservation Society
• History of the Internet A timeline by Robert H`obbes `Zakon
• NSF The National Science Foundation
• ARPA The Advanced Research Projects Agency
• The Routing Arbiter (at Merit Network)

• Network Access Points (NAPs)

• Connected An Internet Encyclopedia
• Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
• Netizens Cyberstop

• Time Information and Utilities

  • NTP Home Page (Network TimeProtocol)
  • NTP Servers from the University of Delaware
  • Time Services Dept. at the U.S.Naval Observatory
  • Time and Frequency Division at the NIST
  • Time in Greenwich, England
  • Royal Greenwich Observatory
  • ThinkMan Dimension 4 - an NTP client for Windows platforms

• Information about Urban Myths, Viruses and Hoaxes on the Internet

• Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
• Vinton Cerf's HOW THE INTERNET CAME TO BE
• NCSA the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, originators of the Mosaic®World Wide Web browser and the HTTPDWeb Server.
• IOL (InterOperability Lab) at UNH The University of Hew Hampshire

• ATM, Ethernet and other low level datacom technologies

• Internet Mail Consortium
• Sun Microsystems
• JAVA from Sun
• HTML Writers Guild
• The New Domain Game by Thom Stark

• Measuring, Monitoring & Quantifying the Internet

  • MIDS Matrix Information and Directory Services
  • Common Solutions Group (CSG) network measurement tool research
  • Internet Information Presentation from the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
  • Inverse Network Technology
  • Internet Connectivity Table from Lawrence Landweber
  • Net Scout
  • Surveyor from Advanced Networks & Service

• New Internet Activities

  • IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 6
  • UCAID University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
  • Route Server Next Generation (from Merit Network)
  • Internet2 Project developing the next generation of Internet for the academic community
  • Abilene an Internet2 high speed network from Quest
  • vBNS a high speed network from MCI WorldCom
  • NLANR The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
  • IPNG IP Next Generation Workgroup Charter
  • IAHC Internet International Ad Hoc Committee (to enhance the Domain Name System)
  • EDNS A scheme in competition with IAHC (above)
  • ARIN the American Registry for Internet Numbers (a non-profit organization established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol(IP) numbers to the Americas, the Caribbian and sub-Saharan Africa.)
  • Next Generation Internet Forum
  • WIA World Internet Alliance (has a very good map of relationships between Internet agencies and associations)
  • Domain Name Rights Coalition
  • Center for Next Generation Internet
  • ICANN the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers

• Internet Service Providers

• Audio/Video/Telephone on the Net

• Internet Search Engines

• USNIX UNIX and Advanced Computing System Technical and Professional Association
• SAGE The System Administrators Guild
• Internet Access Coalition (a group dedicated to maintaining the affordability of Internet access over telephone lines...)
• Internet Libraries
• Antique Books
• Octavo
• Project Gutenberg
• The Universal Library at Carnegie Mellon University
• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
• FidoNet (low cost internetworking)

• Educational Information on the Net

  • CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Computing (the programs they publish include ListProc, a mailing list program)
  • Educause (the merger of CAUSE and Educom) (information technology in education)

• Internet E-Mail lists

• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions with answers)
• About spam (not SPAM) - unsolicited e-mail
• Stop Internet spam
• CAUCE Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
• PC World Article
• Tuning your TCP/IP Stack
• Enabling High Performance Data Transfers

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Comments to: Dave Devereaux-Weber djdevere@doit.wisc.edu
Last Updated: 10-May-2006