See InterNIC.

A combination of software and hardware that allows a user to approximate a telephone conversation over an Internet connection instead of using a traditional telephone system.
Note 1: The required hardware generally consists of a microphone and headphones.
Note 2: The sound quality of current Internet-phone systems is much less than that of traditional telephone systems. Synonym Web phone.

See IPP.

A DOD standard protocol designed for use in interconnected systems of packet-switched computer communication networks.
Note: The internet protocol provides for transmitting blocks of data called datagrams from sources to destinations, where sources and destinations are hosts identified by fixed-length addresses. The internet protocol also provides for fragmentation and reassembly of long datagrams, if necessary, for transmission through small-packet networks.

1. The creation of IP packets with counterfeit (spoofed) IP source addresses.
2. A method of attack used by network intruders to defeat network security measures such as authentication based on IP addresses.
Note 1: An attack using IP spoofing may lead to unauthorized user access, and possibly root access, on the targeted system.
Note 2: A packet-filtering-router firewall may… (Read More →)

Synonym Internet address. See IP address.

See IRC.

See IRTF.

Within the Internet, an accessible facility or entity that contains information or provides data-processing capabilities.
Note: An example of an Internet resource is a Web server. [After 2382-pt.35]

Synonym droid.