Historical and Future Development of Internet Addresses. Identification, Address Resolution, Routing, Routers, Route tracing and Faultfinding.

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Historical and Future Development of Internet Addresses. Identification, Address Resolution, Routing, Routers, Route tracing and Faultfinding

The Internet can be considered as "a collection of interconnected networks that use the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol suite" The Internet has its routes in experimental packet switching work which was conducted by the US Department of Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). The research and development accomplish by ARPA resulted in the development of ARPANet. This network was responsible for the development of various aspects of the Internet such as file transferring, e-mail and remote terminal access to computers which became incorporated into the TCP / IP protocol. Most of this was done during the 60s and 70s and was later taken on by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). The IAB is responsible for the development of Internet protocols and IP addressing. The IAB works in conjunction with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which in the past, has been in charge of developing such standards as IP version 4 and IP version 6. As development has occurred many different approaches have been taken to share information such as FTP, HTTP, STMP, IRC etc, which all have their unique way