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INTERNET STANDARDS
Internet standards
The IETF is the premier Internet standards organization: It follows open and well-
documented processes for setting these standards. Once published, those
standards are made freely available:
Improving existing standards and creating; implementing; and deploying new standards is an
ongoing effort: TheWETEs mission is to produce high quality; relevant technical documents that
describe these voluntary standards: ETE working_groups are the primary mechanism for
development of IETF specifications and guidelines:
RECS
IANA
RFC documents contain technical specifications and organizational notes for
The global coordination of the DNS Root; IP addressing; and other Internet
the Internet;
protocol resources is performed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA) functions:
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Standards_process
AII IETF standards are freely available to view and read, and generally free to
The process of creating a standard is straightforward: a specification
implement by anyone without permission or payment:
undergoes a period of development and several iterations of review by the