| • | Internet Society | Professional organisation with both individual and corporate members, providing leadership for Internet futures, and hosting both the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), standards body for the Internet overall, and the Internet Architecture Board (*4 Apr 2006) | |
| • | W3C | W3C, the WorldWide Web Consortium, is the global oversight body for the Web. Look here for information about Web standards and developments including HTML, XML, accessibility guidelines and style sheets (*31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | W3C UK | The UK agency for W3C, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, provides events, training and a monthly Newsletter (*31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, manages Internet domain name space at the highest level, under licence from the US Department of Commerce as agreed by the 2005 WSIS meeting (*31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | IGF | Internet Governance Forum, United Nations body set up in 2005 to provide a forum for international oversight (31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | WSIS | World Summit on the Information Society, United Nations global forum meeting periodically to develop national and international policy (31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | RIPE and RIPE NCC | Réseaux IP Européens, collaborative forum for IP networks in Europe and beyond. RIPE NCC is Europe's Network Coordination Centre (31 Jan 2006) | |
| • | Internet Systems Consortium | Supports the Internet "and the autonomy of its participants" bu developing and maintaining core production quality software and protocols (for example BIND, DHCP) and operations (e.g. the Domain Survey) (*4 Apr 2006) | |
| • | CERN | CERN (Centre Europeéen des Recherches Nucléaires) was the cradle of the WorldWide Web, developed to meet the need for automated information sharing between collaborating researchers in many different institutions worldwide (*4 Apr 2006) | |
| • | Internet Mail Consortium | hosts mailing lists for many Internet mail activities, including standards developments under the auspices of the IETF (*4 Apr 2006) |
| • | Glossary of Internet terms | from Matisse Enzer (*4 Apr 2006) | |
| • | Internet Resources Newsletter | from Heriot-Watt University, UK – comment, news, website and blog reviews, and more (*4 Apr 2006) |
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