Activity 2. The Internet

"Impact of the Internet in our world today" 

         The internet nowadays, give so much impact in our society both in negative and positive ways. It helps us and in some ways may harm us for such. For instance, the internet enables us to find information in any time of the day for as long as there is sufficient accessibility in the area and also to consider the paying bills. In other hand, the possibility of pornography, false information, and the pop-ups that appear on the internet serves as negative effects.

       Also, internet has become very essential in our daily lives, such as in workplace, home and especially in school for students like me. Internet is very helpful in doing research, paper works, exams through submission in the internet and the likes. Moreover, internet makes our lives more easy and convenient. You can pay your bills, and buy some things or present through the use of the internet without leaving the house. With just one click of its mouse, then you can have what you wanted. For most of the children who could afford to have access in the internet, it does big help to them. It offers a lot of websites that gives learning to the children, making them more interested because of its features and technology.

      On the other way around, it gives bad or negative effect on us. One of the negative things it can give is its inappropriate information,especially in medical aspects that could lead us into lots of confusion. Another is the pornography that becomes available to all including the young children. Advertising on the internet is also one thing that makes our work delayed because of its pop-ups on the screen, it is very much annoying while working on something else. 

Today the internet has become useful to us and has become a part in our daily life. But we must learn how to avoid negative things for us to enjoy the positive things out of using the internet.

• ISOC - The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in internet related standards, education, and policy. It states that its mission is "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world".
• IAB - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (or IAB) is an advertising business organization that develops industry standards conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry. The organization represents a large number of the most prominent media outlets in the United Sates.
• IESG - The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is a body composed of the internet engineering tasks force(IETF) Chair and Area Directors.
• IRTF -Internet Research Task Force, a research organization working on topics related to the evolution of the Internet.
• IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standard, cooperating closely with theW3C and ISO/IECstandards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suit. It is an open standard organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements.
• InterNIC - The Internet Network Information Center, known as InterNIC.
• ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. 
• IANA - The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).  

SOURCES:

ISOC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Society 

IAB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Advertising_Bureau

IESG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Steering_Group

 IRTF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRTF

 IETF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force

 InterNIC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNIC

 ICANN - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

IANA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority

What made the internet reliable and efficient?

• Internet is open, decentralized, and totally neutral. its intelligence lives at the core not at the edge. No single organization holds it that is why it works as it does.  

What principles applied in the Internet that could also be beneficial in other areas?

• Internet is decentralized it can also be beneficial in provider companies.

The Internet protocol suit is the set of communication protocols used for the internet and other similar network. The Internet protocol suits consists of four abstraction layer From the lowest to the highest layer, these are the Link Layer, the Internet Layer, the Transport Layer, and the Application Layer.The link layer contains communication technologies for the local network the host is connected to directly, the link. It provides the basic connectivity functions interacting with the networking hardware of the computer and the associated management of interface-to-interface messaging. The internet layer provides communication methods between multiple links of a computer and facilitates the interconnection of networks. As such, this layer establishes the Internet. It contains primarily the Internet Protocol, which defines the fundamental addressing namespaces,internet protocols version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) used to identify and locate hosts on the network. Direct host-to-host communication tasks are handled in the transport layer, which provides a general framework to transmit data between hosts using protocols like the Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Finally, the highest-level application layer contains all protocols that are defined each specifically for the functioning of the vast array of data communications services. This layer handles application-based interaction on a process-to-process level between communicating 

Internet hosts.