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A formal document from the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) that is the result of committee drafting and subsequent review by interested parties. Some RFCs are informational in nature, documents are how standards and protocols are defined and published for all to see on the IETF website.
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A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
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| Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information |
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| a computer, device which receives messages travelling across a network and redirects them towards their intended destinations based on the addressing information included with the message. |
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Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. It manages all the sending and receiving of Data Packets, like a dependable mail service.
Most networks combine IP with a higher-level protocol called Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which establishes a virtual connection between a destination and a source.
Transmission Control Protocol - provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.
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http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/netech/stackinaction.htm |
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| Domain Name Server, System: the Internet's system for converting alphabetic url names into numeric IP addresses. |
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| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol used by the World Wide Web. It describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to commands. |
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| Reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics. |
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| A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data. |
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| A computer that requests data stored on a server. |
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| The principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers |
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Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators, or on their own initiative. ... Other areas of censorship include copyrights, defamation, harassment, and obscene material. Support for and opposition to Internet censorship also varies. |
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Computer and network surveillance is the monitoring of computer activity and data stored on a hard drive, or data being transferred over computer networks such as the Internet. The monitoring is often carried out covertly and may be completed by governments, corporations, criminal organizations, or individuals. |
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