Author Question: Bridgewater Engineering Company (BECO), a privately held machine shop, makes heavy duty machinery ... (Read 96 times)

ARLKQ · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Bridgewater Engineering Company (BECO), a privately held machine shop, makes heavy duty machinery for factory assembly lines. It sells its presses, grinders, and milling equipment using a few inside salespeople and telephones. It buys its raw materials and supplies from a variety of steel mills and small-parts fabricators located around the world. BECOs president, Tom Dalton, has hired you as a consultant and would like your advice regarding how best to share information with the companys suppliers. Tom would like to connect his network of computers into their ordering systems so he can order supplies quickly when he needs them. Use the Web and this books accompanying Web Links to locate information about extranets and VPNs. Write a report of about 200 words that describes an extranet and outlines why Tom might want to use a VPN to connect BECOs suppliers to his extranet.

Question 2

In 2003, ICANN and the major domain name registries began offering a five-day grace period for new domain registrations. The idea was to give registrants time to correct typographical errors and misspellings in the names they registered. If a registrant found an error in that five-day period, they could cancel their registration and, presumably, re-register a corrected domain name. This policy led to a problem called domain tasting that required considerable effort and cooperation to resolve nearly six years after the policy was implemented. Using your library or your favorite search engine, learn more about domain tasting. Prepare a report of about 300 words that defines domain tasting, outlines its negative effects on Web users, and describes how the problem of domain tasting was resolved.

briezy · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

An extranet was originally defined as an intranet that had been extended to include specific entities outside the boundaries of the organization, such as business partners, customers, or suppliers. Extranets were used to save money and increase efficiency by replacing traditional communication tools such as fax, telephone, and overnight express document carriers. To maintain security within extranets, almost all organizations that created them did so by interconnecting private networks.

A virtual private network (VPN) is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data in a way that protects the data as well as a private network would, but at a lower cost. IP tunneling creates a private passageway through the public Internet that provides secure transmission from one computer to another. The passageway is created by VPN software that encrypts the packet content and then places the encrypted packets inside another packet in a process called encapsulation.

VPNs therefore provide secure transmission of information across the Internet.

Answer to Question 2

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible for managing and doling out Internet domain names. It is not an easy job. And making it harder was a scheme used by some registrars known as domain tasting. Someone would buy up lots of domain names, try them out, and then get rid of the unprofitable ones, all without losing any money. As long as the registrar dumped the domains within the five-day grace period, known as the Add Grace Period (AGP), a full refund was given.

Designed by ICANN to help registrars who made errors in their domain names, the grace period refund was quickly abused by Web sites that populated their domains with lots of ad links that redirected visitors to other sites. It also led to the unavailability of popular names that were scooped up by domain tasters.

In June 2008, ICANN decided to act. The organization stopped refunding the 20-cent annual fee for each registered deleted domain name beyond a certain limit.

But since 20 cents per domain wasn't much of a penalty, ICANN got tougher. The organization began charging registrars 6.75 (the cost of a current .org domain) or higher for each deleted domain beyond a certain limit during the grace period. ICANN has reported that the new policy resulted in a 99.7 percent decrease in domain deletions from June 2008 to April 2009.