ITPEC FE Morning October 2020 Question 80
Which of the following is an organization that manages the standardization of technologies used on the Internet, and develops the technical specifications as an RFC?
Explanation
IETF — the Internet Engineering Task Force develops Internet technology standards and publishes them as RFCs.
The IETF is an open community of engineers organised in working groups. Its specifications for Internet protocols such as IP, TCP, HTTP, DNS and TLS are issued as RFC (Request for Comments) documents.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) ANSI — American National Standards Institute, which coordinates US national standards across industries (ASCII, for example); it does not publish RFCs
- •(b) IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which sets standards such as IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) and IEEE 802.11 (wireless LAN) for the physical and data link layers, not RFCs
- •(d) NIST — the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government agency known for measurement standards and security guidelines such as AES and the Cybersecurity Framework
Key rule: Link each standards body to what it publishes: IETF writes RFCs for Internet protocols, IEEE the 802 LAN standards, ISO and IEC international standards, W3C web standards.
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