READ.ME 29 June 1993 /isoc/charts These charts were prepared as overheads using Microsoft Powerpoint by A.M. Rutkowski . ---------------------- Several different versions are presented here. .ps - output as encapsulated postscript format files (PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-2.0). .ps.Z - same as above but compressed using the standard Unix compression algorithm. .ppt - native Powerpoint binary files. These are available in both Macbinary and DOS-Windows versions. -------------------- The subject groupings are as follows: ISOC_organigram [suffix] Contains the most recent basic organigram representations of ISOC, its standards infrastructure, its external relationships. metrics [various series] [suffix] Contains the most recent charts showing Internet and TCP/IP internet statistics derived from indicated official sources of metric data. The charts were typically prepared by parsing the official data obtained from anonymous ftp servers, porting successively to Excel or Access, then Powerpoint. whatis-internet [suffix] Contains a useful overhead portraying three different views of what is the Internet. Internetwork_overview [suffix] Contains the most recent chart set on internetworking technologies, internets and the Internet used by A.M.Rutkowski in conjunction with presentations made both as Vice-President of the Internet Society, and as Director of Technology Assessment for the Sprint International Communications Corporation. UNIVERSE [suffix] Contains the most recent version of "Today's Information- Telecommunication Standards Making Infrastructure" began while Rutkowski was Counsellor to the Secretary-General of the ITU, prepared for the first Global Telecommunication Standards Summit in Fredericksburg VA in February 1990. This chart has become popular in showing the relationships among and groupings of a wide variety of IT standards bodies.