COMPSCI 10 Lecture Notes - Token Ring, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Wi-Fi
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The virtues are learned through engaging in social practices which are embedded in a particular community: war, 1940 alan turing decrypt engima messages, 1970s and 80s nuclear attack warning systems retaliatory attacks, 1983: strategic defense initiative star wars . Internet i lecture: network topologies, point to point (peer to peer, starnet, token ring, new thing: ethernet (bus, why only one internet, the whole point is to be connected, if you connect two internets with 1 wire then you have one internet again, the internet was built using a decentralized architecture and using open protocols, acronyms, ietf internet engineering task force. Iana: internet assigned numbers authority allocate the ip addresses to entities by delegating to rirs (regional internet registries, problem: no more ip addresses left, solution: ipv6 2^128, issue: adoption still in progress, workaround exists: nat (network address translation, dns domain name service, used to resolve names to ip addresses in a decentralized manner.
