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Appendix F
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IEEE 802.3
IEEE local area network (LAN) protocol that specifies an
implementation of the physical layer and the media access control
(MAC) sublayer of the data link layer. IEEE 802.3 uses CSMA/CD
access at a variety of speeds over a variety of physical media.
Extensions to the IEEE 802.3 standard specify implementations for Fast
Ethernet. Physical variations of the original IEEE 802.3 specification
include 10Base2, 10Base5, 10BaseF, 10BaseT and 10Broad36. Physical
variations for Fast Ethernet include 100BaseT, 100BaseT4 and
100BaseX.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
The private (non-government) non-profit corporation that has been
formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation,
protocol parameter assignment, domain name system (DNS)
management and root server system management functions. These
functions were previously performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA). The U.S. government is essentially turning over
control of the Internet to ICANN, although domain name registration
performed by Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) will continue to be under
U.S. government contract for a limited time.
Internet domain
An Internet domain is a host naming convention used to ensure that no
two individual hosts on the global Internet have the same host name. An
Internet domain should not be confused with an NT Domain. See
NT Domain.
Internet Protocol (IP)
A network-layer protocol in the TCP/IP stack offering a connectionless
internetwork service. IP provides features for addressing,
type-of-service specification, fragmentation and reassembly, and
security. IP is defined in RFC 791.
InterNIC
The former organization responsible for registering and maintaining the
com, edu, gov, net and org domain names on the World Wide Web.
Domain name registration is now performed by Network Solutions, Inc.
who will continue to be under U.S. government contract for a limited
time.