What is the name of the standards organization for the internet, responsible for technical standards of internet protocol suite? The organization is currently operating under the non-profit Internet Society, and handles HTTP, TLS, DNS, BGP, etc. One modus operandi which they are known for is informal discussion groups called "Birds of a Feather".
Answer to yesterday's question: "Proxy", a word derived from Latin procuratio - meaning "management on behalf of another". The meaning carries well over into IT, management on behalf of a server. Cloudflare and NGINX today act as reverse proxies, where the client essentially "doesn't know" about the actual server - Cloudflare filters traffic before it reaches the actual service itself.
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