{"draft":"","doc_id":"RFC1958","title":"Architectural Principles of the Internet ","authors":["B. Carpenter, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IAB","abstract":" The Internet and its architecture have grown in evolutionary fashion from modest beginnings, rather than from a Grand Plan. While this process of evolution is one of the main reasons for the technology's success, it nevertheless seems useful to record a snapshot of the current principles of the Internet architecture. This is intended for general guidance and general interest, and is in no way intended to be a formal or invariant reference model.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  ","pub_date":"May 1996","keywords":[" IAB "],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC3439"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC1958","errata_url":null}