Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1593 IETF

IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force, is an international non-governmental organization voluntarily participated and managed by experts who have contributed to Internet technology engineering and development. It brings together network designers, operators and researchers related to the evolution of Internet architecture and the stable operation of the Internet, and is open to all those interested in the industry.

This organization was established at the end of 1985. In later generations, it became the most authoritative technical standardization organization for the global Internet. Its main task is to be responsible for the research, development and formulation of Internet-related technical specifications. Most of the international Internet technical standards popular in later generations came from IETF.

Theoretically, anyone can register to participate in an IETF meeting. The way it works is that some researchers will first spontaneously conduct research on a certain topic through an email group. When the research is more mature, they can apply to the IETF to establish an interest group to carry out the work. Group preparation work.

After the preparatory work is completed and approved by the upper level of IETF, a working group can be established. Working groups carry out special research within the IETF framework, such as routing, transmission, security and other special working groups. Anyone interested in this technology can freely participate in discussions and put forward their own opinions.

A large amount of technical work is ultimately completed by these working groups.

In order to manage these working groups, IETF established its own management system structure, which mainly includes three branches.

One is the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the second is the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and the third is a working group in eight areas such as Internet routing, transmission, and applications.

IAB members are elected by IETF participants and mainly supervise the work of various working groups. It must consider very carefully what the Internet is, what changes it is taking, and what we need it to do.

The main responsibility of IMSG is to receive reports from various working groups, review their work, and then make guiding opinions on the various standards and suggestions they put forward, and even the direction of the work. , provide certain guidance on quality and procedures.

The IETF produces two documents, one is called the "Internet Draft" and the second is called the "Internet Request for Comments". The second is actually a very formal report, which is an archive of historical documents and will not be changed after it is released. of.

Anyone can submit a draft without any special restrictions, and other members can also adopt an indifferent attitude towards it.

The only solutions that are important are those worth discussing and ultimately becoming the Internet Technical Specification Request for Comments.

Like ISO, ITU-T, and even the UNICODE organization, the IETF itself belongs to a standards-setting organization. However, when the first two have become dull and noisy, a flexible, fast, open-minded, open, and professional Internet standardization organization, Of course it has to be more popular around the world.

It is precisely because of these characteristics that Clover Company also had the opportunity to step aside and propose its own draft, which eventually promoted it to become a standard protocol. In the field of Internet transmission protocols, the SSL1.0 solicitation for opinions was issued.

Many times, the world is just a grassroots team. At least the IETF before Zhou Zhi joined had a bit of this flavor in it.

The benefits are of course self-evident, but many companies today have not yet realized that this highland will develop into a standardization organization as important as ISO, ITU-T, UNICODE and other organizations in the future.

Of course, by that time, the IETF will also grow into what it once hated - slow, huge, noisy, and bureaucratic.

In fact, there are already some signs. Since Clover Company took advantage of the IETF's "easy to turn around" feature to quickly formulate the SSL1.0 solicitation for opinions, and launched IE, many people have discovered that they can make a difference in computer history. An opportunity to "leave his name in history". Most observers can already clearly find that the Internet will definitely become the next super communication medium. Anyone with some technical knowledge can propose their own innovative ideas for foreign countries by participating in IETF working groups.

But they were already late. Zhou Zhi used his foresight, combined with Clover's considerable accumulation and strength in the past few years, as well as cooperative relationships with international giants such as WINDOWS, MAC OS, UNIX, and deep involvement in UNICODE. With rich experience, I seized this opportunity first, purchased the copyright of MOSAIC, and converted it into SSL with independent intellectual property rights.

According to feedback from the AXA intelligence department, Netscape's browser is preparing to be launched at the end of December, and Zhou Zhi is currently negotiating with Microsoft and Apple, hoping to adopt the "ride-on" model like Hanwenku and make his IE a "Suite" for WINDOWS.

Unfortunately, Apple is preparing to develop closed-loop software suitable for its own operating system, and Microsoft has not yet realized the importance of the browser. It is currently difficult to promote this matter.

Apart from these, there is only one thing left, and that is the establishment of an online community.

This is easy to understand - portals, forums, mailboxes, chat software.

These three things are all ready-made. The Zhouzhi campus network has been built very well, and it has all independent intellectual property rights. Many tools have even reached the advanced level and become indispensable in Clover's daily work. Artifact".

Now we have to launch a WEB version, and we even need to make some castrations of it, or extract the common parts, strengthen some entertainment functions, and add some online games.

These things are also readily available. Currently, the company's internal traffic monitoring shows that half of the traffic is used for entertainment. Programmers even use their love to generate electricity. In order to play comfortably for themselves, they use Shudu Mahjong, a popular game on campus, and Dual Mahjong. Games such as QQ have been moved to the intranet.

Zhou Zhi has not been idle in this regard. After Hu Tianyu came up with the graphics development control for poker, the only thing left was to design the rules. For testing, he also moved the Landlord that was once popular among his friends.

This is what the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Of course, among all these preparations, none of the above is the most important. The most critical thing is actually the hardware, that is, you must have a line connecting China Unicom to the INTERNET!

There is currently only one such line in China, and that is the 64K line that the Computer Network Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences applied for access to the subjective Internet agency of the United States.

This thing is now being promoted so much that the industry calls it the "information superhighway."

Thoughtful use of this resource is undoubtedly a wishful thinking. Fortunately, in view of the urgent situation, the country encourages powerful technology companies to proactively access the Internet. Currently, in addition to this fully functional line to access the international Internet, several other networks are also In full swing.

This was later known as the "Four Backbone Networks": China Education and Scientific Research Computer Network, China Public Computer Internet, China Science and Technology Network, and China Jinqiao Information Network.