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Notes

Some Background on the Internet
1 ARPA's mission statement then was the same as it is today,
"... to develop imaginative, innovative and often high risk re-
search ideas offering a significant technological impact that
will go well beyond the normal evolutionary developmental ap-
proaches; and, to pursue these ideas from the demonstration
of technical feasibility through the development of prototype
systems." (Internet site: http://www.arpa.mil)
2 Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay up Late:
The Origins of the Internet, Simon and Schuster, New York,
1996, pp. 10, 54-55.
3 Most addresses consist of the last name of the user, followed
by @ (pronounced "at"), and then the name of the service or
company that provides the user with a connection to the In-
ternet. The final part of the address is called the domain. It in-
dicates the type of larger category to which the user would be-
long. If one were a student or a professor at a university, one's
address would be followed by "edu"; a commercial user would
have an address ending in "com"; military users, "mil"; gov-
ernment users, "gov," and so forth. In France, user addresses
end in "fr," whereas in Great Britain they end in "uk," in Fin-
land "fi," in Russia "ru," and so on. Yet, despite its orga-
nizational assistance, The Internet Society has no legal claim
to the network, nor does it serve as administrator to the virtu-
al entity. The Internet Society (Internet site: http://www.
isoc.org/) is an extraordinary example of Internet self-man-
agement. ISOC was created in 1992 with the primary goal of
guaranteeing fair compatibility for communications within the

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Publication Information: Book Title: Cyberwars: Espionage on the Internet. Contributors: Jean Guisnel - author. Publisher: Perseus Books (Current Publisher: Perseus Publishing). Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: 263.
    
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