RFCs and Rough Consensus: How Open Standards Run the Internet

No company owns the internet — memos do. The legendary 'How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes', the two-part deep dives from Sabin Civil Engineering and Whiteboard Magic on packets, wires and routers, Computerphile on the Request For Comment — the 1969 note series that became the law of the network — the Internet Society on why open standards matter, IETF's own introduction, an engineer's guide to RFCs 'the good, the bad and the ugly', and the history of the registries that hand out the internet's numbers.

Playlist by @open_protocols_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How does the INTERNET work? | ICT #2 — Sabin Civil Engineering
2. How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes — Aaron
3. Network Protocols Explained: Networking Basics — WhiteboardDoodles
4. What is the internet and How Does the Internet Work? | Network and Internet explained — Tata Communications
5. How Does the Internet Work? | Data Packets — PowerCert Animated Videos
6. RFC (Request For Comment) Explained - Computerphile — Computerphile
7. This is Our Internet: Open standards and why they matter — Internet Society
8. Introducing the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - Making The Internet Work Better — IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
9. Understanding IETF RFCs: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — Orhan Ergun
10. History of the RIRs — APNIC