These networks must use a standard form of communication so

information from one network can be passed across to another

network.
To some extent, the way any one of these separate networks
works internally is nobodys business but the owner and users of
that network. However, where a network joins to other networks,
where it becomes part of the internet, it has to conform to the
standards of the internet.
The internet is not owned by a single organisation, so there is no
one authority that dictates how it works. Yet all the different people
and organisations with their own networks that together make up
the internet have to work to common standards, or data would be
unable to move between the different networks.
In the next step youll find out about the TCP/IP protocols.