Internet standard

An Internet standard is a specification for an innovative internetworking technology or methodology, which the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified as an open standard after the innovation underwent peer review.Without standards, communication between computers of different types would be very difficult. A bus standard is something like ISA and PCI, so hardware can communicate with the CPU, and similarly there needs to be some kind of standard across network protocols. Throughout the Internet community, standards are both suggested and established by Request for Comments (RFCs), and into some extent this may be considered "the law". If a product claims to comply by a particular RFC, then we know that any other applications which do so also should be able to communicate by it. However, RFCs include other things, such like lists of previous RFCs and basic introductions by TCP.
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