Internet and Society

Question 1

What is a router?

Answer 1

Computers that receive messages travelling across a network and redirects them towards heir intended destination based on the addressing information included in the message.

Question 2

What is the Internet Protocol Stack?

Answer 2

Process by which information is translated throughout the internet by communication

Question 3

What is DNS?

Answer 3

The internet’s system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP Addresses

Question 4

What is an IP address?

Answer 4

Number assigned to any item that is connected to the internet.

Question 5

What is TCP?

Answer 5

Provides reliable, controlled and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and often seen as TCP/IP in writing

Question 6

What is IETF?

Answer 6

Internet engineering task force: Organization which develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite

Question 7

What is bandwith?

Answer 7

Transmission capacity measured by bit rate

Question 8

What is latency?

Answer 8

Latency is the amount of time a message takes to traverse a system.

Question 9

What is bitrate?

Answer 9

The number of bits that are processed per unit of time. Ex: 8 bits

Question 10

What does an open internet mean?

Answer 10

the full resources of the Internet and means to operate on it should be easily accessible to all individuals,