This differs from approaches such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet that use variable sized packets or frames.

: Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN, a nonprofit corporation, allocates Internet Protocol resources ; develops consensus-based policies ; and facilitates the advancement of the Internet through information and educational outreach.

Well-known communications protocols are Ethernet, a hardware and Link Layer standard that is ubiquitous in local area networks, and the Internet Protocol Suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i. e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats.

This is largely limited to the major incumbent carriers, such as Bell Canada and Telus, for traditional landline service ( but not Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP )).

* CGMP, the Cisco version of the Internet Group Management Protocol snooping

Another potential source of competition in the future will be TV over broadband internet connections ; this is known as Internet Protocol television ( IPTV ).

Other advantages include better voice quality and integration to a Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) network providing cheap or unlimited nationwide and international calling.

Note that in many cases, digital cable telephone service is separate from cable modem service being offered by many cable companies and does not rely on Internet Protocol ( IP ) traffic or the Internet.

Another way is IPTV, that is receiving TV via Internet Protocol, relying on Digital Subscriber Line ( DSL ) or optical cable line.

It defines the DNS protocol, a detailed specification of the data structures and communication exchanges used in DNS, as part of the Internet Protocol Suite.

The Internet maintains two principal namespaces, the domain name hierarchy and the Internet Protocol ( IP ) address spaces.

The middle section of the frame consists of payload data including any headers for other protocols ( e. g., Internet Protocol ) carried in the frame.

The availability of high-speed Internet Protocol networks has made the British film industry capable of working closely with U. S. studios as part of globally distributed productions.

The Freenet protocol is intended to be used on a network of complex topology, such as the Internet ( Internet Protocol ).

HTTP is an application layer protocol designed within the framework of the Internet Protocol Suite.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure ( HTTPS ) is a widely used communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.

Newer versions of popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista implement the Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP ) to verify that this is not the case.

In 1982 the Internet Protocol Suite ( TCP / IP ) was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP / IP networks called the Internet was introduced.

Since the mid-1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) " phone calls ", two-way interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites.

The Internet is an essential tool of amateur astronomers.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

The digital data collected by the telescope is then transmitted and displayed to the user by means of the Internet.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

A relatively recent role for amateur astronomers is searching for overlooked phenomena ( e. g., Kreutz Sungrazers ) in the vast libraries of digital images and other data captured by Earth and space based observatories, much of which is available over the Internet.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

* ram – a text file that contains a link to the Internet address where the RealAudio file is stored.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

ARIN is one of five Regional Internet Registries ( RIRs ) in the world.

Membership is not required to participate in ARIN ’ s policy development process or to apply for Internet number resources.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The President of the ACM for 2012 – 2014 is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet ".

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

The " Belarusian Internet " is widely called ByNet ( Байнет ) ( as an analogue of Runet ).

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

The profile of the average Internet user is male, university educated, living in the capital, and working in a state enterprise.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

Internet access is limited and expensive though telephone service is good.

* ra & rm – a RealAudio format designed for streaming audio over the Internet.

Content-control software, content filtering software, secure web gateways, censorware, and web filtering software are terms for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted to a reader, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, e-mail, or other means.

Companies that make products that selectively block Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as " Internet filter " or " URL Filter "; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and restrict the access of their children, " parental control software " is also used.

The Gopher protocol () is a TCP / IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

The codec was first designed to be utilized in H. 324 based systems ( PSTN and other circuit-switched network videoconferencing and videotelephony ), but has since also found use in H. 323 ( RTP / IP-based videoconferencing ), H. 320 ( ISDN-based videoconferencing ), RTSP ( streaming media ) and SIP ( Internet conferencing ) solutions.

The Internet Protocol Suite, also called the TCP / IP model of the Internet was not designed to conform to the OSI model and does not refer to it in any of the normative specifications in Requests for Comment and Internet standards.

The Green Paper proposed certain actions designed to privatize the management of Internet names and addresses in a manner that allows for the development of robust competition and facilitates global participation in Internet management.

Version numbers 6 through 9 were proposed for various protocol models designed to replace IPv4: SIPP ( Simple Internet Protocol Plus, known now as IPv6 ), TP / IX ( RFC 1475 ), PIP ( RFC 1621 ) and TUBA ( TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses, RFC 1347 ).

Since the rise of widespread broadband Internet access, malicious software has more frequently been designed for profit.

PPP was designed to work with numerous network layer protocols, including Internet Protocol ( IP ), TRILL, Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange ( IPX ), NBF and AppleTalk.

For pure Internet Protocol ( IP ) forwarding function, a router is designed to minimize the state information associated with individual packets.

* Heritrix is the Internet Archive's archival-quality crawler, designed for archiving periodic snapshots of a large portion of the Web.

A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet.

The Internet is designed with the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks, but due to the huge numbers of people using it, it would likely be jammed and unable to handle communication if it suffered a large amount of damage.

It is designed to support open Internet standards, and is used by different applications to display web pages and, in some cases, an application's user interface itself ( by rendering XUL ).

From the outset, Gecko was designed to support open Internet standards.

In order to support web pages designed for legacy versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer, Gecko supports DOCTYPE switching.

While this increases compatibility with many documents designed only for Internet Explorer, some purists argue that it harms the cause of standards evangelism.

Intel started using the term netbook in March 2008 as a generic term to describe " small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet ", believing they were " not offering a branded line of computers here " and " see no naming conflict ".

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter feature mobile editions with limited graphics and reduced functionality, designed for slow Internet connections on mobile devices.