IBM and Microsoft are, at the very least, putting themselves in a position to charge royalties on a new technology that will make up a lot of the Internet's future traffic: Web services. (See my ...

Back when the original Internet, the digital one, was being brought together there was a vicious standards war. The fallout from the war fundamentally underpins how we use the Internet today, and what ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers who were pioneers in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - a system that secures and authenticates computer communications - are now playing leading roles ...

Five areas of Internet law and policy stand out: privacy, security, accessibility, intellectual property and governance. A central theme undergirds them all: standards. Hence I shall deem 2016 the ...

A battle is brewing between two standards bodies – the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – over which group will be the primary source of the ...

Amid all the discussion today about online threats, from censorship to surveillance to cyberwar, we often spend more time on the symptoms than on the underlying chronic conditions. If we want to make ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) --the organization that develops and promotes Internet standards-- has approved three new standards this week designed to improve the security of ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) —the organization that approves proposed Internet standards and protocols— has formally approved TLS 1.3 as the next major version of the Transport Layer ...

A Hungarian army officer checks the voice over Internet protocol connection and video feed during the testing phase of exercise Combined Endeavor 2007. The Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) ...

The Internet Society, which oversees operation of the .org registry and sponsors standards development work, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a gala event in Geneva next month. IN PICTURES: ...