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Glossary
F
Federal Communications Commission. A U.S. government agency that regulates
FCC
interstate and foreign communications. The FCC sets rates for communication
services,
File Transfer Protocol. The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer files
FTP
between hosts.
H
A measure of distance between two points on the Internet. It is equivalent to the
hop count
number of gateways that separate the source and destination.
Hypertext Markup Language. The page-coding language for the World Wide
HTML
Web.
A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet
HTML browser
Explorer.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to carry world-wide web (www)
http
traffic between a www browser computer and the www server being accessed.
I
Internet Control Message Protocol. The protocol used to handle errors and
ICMP
control messages at the IP layer. ICMP is actually part of the IP protocol.
An IP address assigned in blocks of numbers to user organizations accessing the
Internet address
Internet. These addresses are established by the United States Department of
Defense's Network Information Center. Duplicate addresses can cause major
problems on the network, but the NIC trusts organizations to use individual
addresses responsibly. Each address is a 32-bit address in the form of x.x.x.x
where x is an eight- bit number from 0 to 255. There are three classes: A, B and
C, depending on how many computers on the site are likely to be connected.
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