BM362Wwin: Week 5: Do we need new rules?standards?

What can you see on the images besides. hmm...it's a simple rule governing the internet connection. Why do we need rules?
rules provide structure. Without rule, route A wouldn't have known it had to transfer data to route C. The more advanced the technology the more complex the rule.There have been many laws that govern the internet. e.g. the law that regulate internet in India.

Every place has its own law which is slightly different but with same purpose i.e. to keep everything in order. The law has to be amended because the things it govern is changing. Especially in the cyber world which grow intensively in the last 2 decades, need new standards and new rule governing the use of internet. Because of the development, now there is new term "cyber crime" which is crime in the cyber world. e.g. somebody called hacker enter into somebody else system and manipulate things in their databases. Before there was no law that specifically states hacker is a crime, so the law has to be amended. Other form of crime is the piracy of songs, movie. Nowadays people can easily download songs, movies from the internet without paying the royalty to the record company. Then new law emerge to govern the piracy.
e.g. rules that emerge due to advancement in technology click here

Besides new law, new standard is needed too for the digital convergence. Previously the language used in different platform has different standard. But now there is digital convergence, in order to be compatible in every platform, new standards have to be established. e.g. in HTML forget to close the tag is no problem but in XHTML (Combination of HTML and XML which in future people will use this language rather than HTML) an error will occur. This more restricted XHTML is compatible in more user interface than HTML.