Standards Organizations and Architectures
TCP/IP Standards
- Created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Named after its two most widely known standards, TCP and IP
- TCP/IP is the architecture, while TCP and IP are individual standards
- However, these are not its only standards, even at the transport and internet layers
- IETF standards dominate in corporations at the application, transport, and internet layers
- However, application, transport, and internet standards from other architectures are still used