ISC 3: MIDTERM 1

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Organization that

develops standard of all internet protocols
Standards are called RFCs - Request for Comments
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
TCP Transmission Protocol
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA): to receive federal funding,

libraries must install software filters on the Internet
Esther Dyson: anonymity is the opposite of community
Cookies: digital markers placed by websites onto hard disks of
computers
Jeremy Benthams Panopticon: Perfect information and control
Lessig: the Internet enables monitoring of our behavior; as a result we
have lost control of our privacy
DPI Deep Packet Inspecting
APIs: open application programming interfaces (allows anyone to
develop on top of a platform)
Trackbacks: can see who is linking to your page
Creative Commons License: A way for people to build on others
work
Creative commons attribution: the right to copy, distribute,
display, modify, giving author credit
Recommender systems: Recommendations to the user, based on
those who are similar to the user

PageRank of Google: based on number of sites that link to that

webpage
Coases Law: A firm will continue to conduct business in-house until
the costs of doing in-house business exceed the costs of going to the
open market
Three elements leading to deep changes in industry:
wikinomics:
Technology:
Development of Web 2.0 and openness of the Internet
Demographics:
The Net or Millennial generation
Global economics:
new kinds of global economic cooperation
computer-mediated communication (CMC)
Networked individualism: the individual is the operator of his/her
social network, not the family unit
(--Manual
Castells)