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HISTORY  OF EDI ¢   It was not until the 1970’s, when work began for national EDI standards. ¢   Both client and vendors input their requirements to create a set of standard data formats that —   were hardware independent; —   were unambiguous and could be used by all trading partners; —   reduced labor-intensive tasks such as data-entry; —   allowed the sender of data to control the exchange including receipt confirmation of by the other party EDI implies  the computer-to-computer exchange of business data in a standard,   machine-processable format.   The information is generally patterned after a conventional paper document, such as a purchase order or invoice. It is a “paperless trading” Components of EDI ¢   Trading Partner A trading partner is any company, government department, or commercial or non-commercial entity with whom an organization regularly exchanges documents of formatted ...

¢ Private corporate network ¢ Uses standard Internet protocols — TCP/IP — HTML and HTTP — Browser and Web server ¢ Internet and intranet differences — Intranet is smaller in scope — Intranet limited to organization’s employee       Steps ¢ Analyze the organization’s information ecology   ¢ Identify the typical problems experienced by users   ¢ Analyze the information behaviors of these set of users   ¢ Create value added processes to resolve the problems of users and to improve the Information Ecology.  

Intranet is Intra+ Net so an Intranet is an internal or private Internet used strictly within the confines of a company, university, or organization. "Inter" means "between or among," hence the difference between the Internet and an Intranet. Some formal definitions of Intranets ¢ “Intranets help present and   circulate boundary objects” ¢ “Intranets… support the creation, sharing, and use of knowledge” ¢ “Intranets are organizationally restricted”

¢ The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers   (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. — ICANN performs the IANA functions — ICANN accredits domain-name registrar for .com, .org., .net (and other domain)   ¢ Since ICANN performs the IANA functions, it is in charge for allocating all numbers. However, the main concern is the allocation of domain names. ¢ ICANN role is to oversee the domain-name registration system's   transition from government hands to private hands and to coordinate its decentralization and the integration into a global community.

¢ The functions associated with the assignment of   numbers in the Internet is referred to as Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA). ¢ IANA serves as a registry that keeps records of assigned numbers: — IP addresses — Protocol numbers — Domain names (until 1992) ¢ There is no charge for allocation.

¢ Internet Society (ISOC): Founded in 1992, an international nonprofit professional organization that provides administrative support for the Internet. Founded in 1992, ISOC is the organizational home for the standardization bodies of the Internet. ¢ Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): Forum that   coordinates the development of new protocols and standards. Organized into working groups that are each devoted to a specific topic or protocol. Working groups document their work in reports, called Request For Comments (RFCs). ¢ IRTF (Internet Research Task Force): The Internet Research Task Force is a composed of a number of focused, long-term and small Research Groups. ¢ Internet Architecture Board (IAB) : a technical advisory group of the Internet Society, provides oversight of the architecture for the protocols and   the standardization process ¢ The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) : The IESG is responsible for technica...

¢ Traditional core applications:   Email   News   Remote Login   File Transfer ¢ The killer application:   World-Wide Web (WWW) ¢ New applications:   Videoconferencing   Telephony   P2P applications   Internet Broadcast