Where is the headquarters of the world wide web?

Answer 1

The web has no central "headquarters". The WWW is made up of several thousands of separate networks that are interconnected. These networks are publically and privately owned, and may be owned by a large corporation like Sprint or a small company like your local ISP. There are a number of organizations that have responsibility for different aspects of ensuring that the internet continues to run properly and efficiently.

• Internet standards are created through the use of RFCs(Request For Comments) maintained by the IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force). The IETF is an international group of network designers, engineers, researchers, vendors and others who study different aspects of the Internet workings and come to agreement on the best ways to facilitate various tasks. Once they come to an agreement on the best way to perform a certain task, such as routing, a starndard is developed that all manufacturers of Internet equipment and developers of Internet software must comply with. Any network wishing to be connected to the Internet must be in compliance with these standards also.

• IP addresses and domain names come under the overview of ICANN(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN is responsible for Internet Protocol (IP) address, space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions.

• Web pages are produced using HTML(Hyper-Text Markup Language). The standards for this are somewhat looser than Internet RFCs as there isn't a single designated maintainer of these standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is probably the most prominent developer of HTML standards that web browser vendors seek to comply with. Because these standards aren't as strict, you'll see things such as web pages appearing differently when viewed through different browsers.