Technical links
Content provided by me
Hardware
Internet
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ARPA - Place where Internet was born (now renamed to
DARPA).
- ISOC - Da
Guys!
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IANA - Guys who have coordinated Internet.
- ICANN - New guys who coordinate Internet.
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ISTF - Guys who look after social side of Internet.
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IETF - Guys who develop and look after tech side of Internet.
- IAB
- Guys who advise Internet developments (part of
IETF).
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IRTF - Guys who create Internet developments (part of
IETF).
- IESG - Guys who look after Internet
developments (part of
IETF).
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RFC - Finished Internet developments (results of
IETF work).
- ISI
at USC - Place around which
above people hung out.
- W3C -
Creators and developers of WWW.
- CERT/CC - Internet security guys.
- ISI
FTP site - Place
where all technical Internet/Networking documents are placed.
Various standards organizations
- IEEE - These guys are just too large to
ignore.
- ISO - Guys who register and publish all kinds
of standards.
- IEC
- Guys who standardise all fields of Electrotechnology.
- ECMA
- Guys who standardize Information and Communication Systems.
- BIPM
- Maintainers of SI.
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MPEG - Developers of video format standards.
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Unicode Consortium - Developers of Unicode character encoding standard.
- OASIS
- Guys who standardise information representation in XML.