Why Care About Internet Standards? Standardization has allowed us to achieve interoperability. Different organizations and vendors can develop hardware and software to be connected to the Internet. Unless they agree on a protocol, their hardware and software would not be able to talk to each other. Standardization is all interested stakeholders sitting together, debating, and…

The ’50s: The Cold War The birth of the Internet can be traced back to the middle of the last century. In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. In response, the U.S. government created ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), which was responsible for developing emerging technologies which is part of the United States…