Module 1: Internet Overview

Lecture (powerpoint-slides, based on material written by Olga Gelbart)

Original lecture (powerpoint-slides, by Olga Gelbart )

Supplementary material

• Internet Organizations
  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- a world-wide organization for evolutinonary protocol designing

    The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has around 500 Member organizations from all over the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web.

  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- organization for domain name assignment

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.

  • International Webmasters Association

    IWA, a non-profit professional association, is the industry's leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals.

• Other Tutorials
  • Introduction to the Internet Protocols -- by State University of New Jersey
  • Internet Tutorials -- by University at Albany