Today we’re going to look at what it really means to be a standard on the Internet and the IETF, the governing body that sets those standards. 

When you open a web browser and visit a page on the Internet, there are rules that govern how that page is interpreted. When traffic sent from your computer over the Internet gets broken into packets and encapsulated, other brands of devices can interpret the traffic and react, provided that the device is compliant in how it handles the protocol being used.