Critical internet infrastructure

Critical internet infrastructure

Physical transmission lines of all types such as wired, fiber optic and microwave links along with routing equipment and the accompanying critical soft services like DNS, email, website hosting, authentication and authorization, storage systems and database servers. All these are considered by most experts to make up the critical internet infrastructure [ [http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-672] , GAO Report on DHS Internet Infrastructure Challenges] [ [http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dnsext/] , IETF Working group calls DNS critical internet infrastructure] . If any of these systems and services were to be interrupted by a significant period of time " [t] he internet...as we know it would collapse". [ [http://www.stevegibbard.com/] , Steve Gibbard is an expert on critical Internet infrastructure]

ee also

* Internet
* Routers
* Fiber Optics
* Microwaves
* POTS
* Domain Name System
* Email
* Database

References

* [http://www.osce.org/item/13570.html Media Freedom Internet Cookbook] by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Vienna, 2004
* [http://www.livinginternet.com Living Internet] —Internet history and related information, including information from many creators of the Internet
* [http://www.firstmonday.org/ First Monday] peer-reviewed journal on the Internet
* [http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/how-much-does-the-internet-weigh How Much Does The Internet Weigh?] by Stephen Cass, Discover 2007
*Rehmeyer, Julie J. 2007. Mapping a medusa: The Internet spreads its tentacles. Science News 171(June 23):387-388. Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070623/fob2.asp .
*Castells, M. 1996. Rise of the Network Society. 3 vols. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
*Castells, M. (2001), “Lessons from the History of Internet”, in “The Internet Galaxy”, Ch. 1, pp 9-35. Oxford Univ. Press.

External links

* [http://www.internetvalley.com/archives/mirrors/cerf-how-inet.txt How the Internet Came to Be]
* [http://www.searchandgo.com/articles/internet/net-explained-1.php Internet Explained]
* [http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ Global Internet Traffic Report]
* [http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml The Internet Society History Page]
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc801.txt RFC 801, planning the TCP/IP switchover]
* [http://www.future-internet.eu/ European Future Internet Portal]


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