<div dir="ltr">GG, this is good info to bootstrap our memory, especially to those of us who are wondering what is all this IANA, NTIA talk :)<div><br></div><div>Warm regards</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div>______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 April 2014 23:32, Grace Githaiga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div>For those who have been following the debate, this gives the basics. </div><div><br></div><div>When you want to visit a website, you type or paste the site’s domain name into </div><div>your browser, or click on an html link.</div>
<div>That domain name is sent to a server which translates the name into a series of numbers </div><div>– the Internet Protocol or IP Address - which the server uses to direct your request to </div><div>the website’s physical location. This all happens in the blink of an eye.</div>
<div>Those names and numbers are called “unique identifiers” and are aligned with a </div><div>standard set of protocol parameters that ensure computers can talk to and understand </div><div>each other. </div><div>These are part of the IANA functions, which are managed by ICANN, the Internet </div>
<div>Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.</div><div>These functions aren’t just limited to browsing the Internet - they also enable you to send </div><span style="font-size:12pt">an email or backup photos to the cloud, amongst other tasks.</span><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/functions-basics-07apr14-en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/functions-basics-07apr14-en.pdf</a></div> </div>
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