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The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks It states that its mission is "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". [1]

The Internet Society has offices near Washington, DC, USA, and in Geneva, Switzerland. It has a membership base comprising more than 80 organizational and more than 28,000 individual members. Members also form "chapters" based on either common geographical location or special interests. There are currently more than 90 chapters around the world. [2]

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History

ISOC was officially formed in 1992, with one of its purposes being to provide a corporate structure to support the Internet standards development process. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Lyman Chapin released a document, Announcing ISOC, which explained the rationale for establishing the Internet Society. Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf His contributions have been recognized repeatedly with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, and Robert Elliot Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol and along with Vinton G This document also sets out the original charter of the organization as follows:

The Society will be a non-profit organization and will be operated for international educational, charitable, and scientific purposes, among which are:

Many of the driving forces in the Internet arena, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), were (and still remain) very informal organizations from a legal perspective. There was a growing need for financial support and organization structure. The Internet Society was incorporated as a non-profit educational organization which could provide that support structure, as well as promoting other activities that were important to the development of the Internet.

Like many functions and organizations active in the Internet, growth and evolution have been so rapid that no single perspective gives an understanding of the Society. From one view, ISOC is the parent corporation of the IETF; as such all IETF Request for Comments documents, including those RFCs which describe "Internet Standards", are copyrighted by ISOC (although freely available to anyone, including non-members, at no charge). In Computer network Engineering, a Request for Comments (RFC is a Memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF describing From another perspective, ISOC grew out of the IETF, to support those functions that require a corporate form rather than simply the ad-hoc approach of the IETF.

ISOC today

ISOC conducts a wide range of activities under three main categories, namely standards, public policy, and education.

Under the standards category, ISOC supports and promotes the work of the standards settings bodies for which it is the organizational home: the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). ISOC also seeks to promote understanding and appreciation of the Internet model of open, transparent processes and consensus-based decision making[4].

Under the public policy category, ISOC works with governments, national and international organizations, Civil Society, the private sector, and other parties to promote policies about the Internet that conform to ISOC's core values. Civil society is composed of the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions that form the basis of a functioning Society as opposed to the force-backed The following statement illustrates the foundation for ISOC's policy positions:

We envision a future in which people in all parts of the world can use the Internet to improve their quality of life, because standards, technologies, business practices, and government policies sustain an open and universally accessible platform for innovation, creativity, and economic opportunity. [5]

ISOC plays a prominent role in Internet governance discussions, including significant involvement in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Policies and mechanisms for Internet governance have been topics of heated debate between many different Internet stakeholders some of whom have very different visions for how and indeed The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS was a pair of United Nations -sponsored conferences about Information, Communication and in broad terms The Internet Governance Forum ( IGF) is a multi-stakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance.

Under the category of education, ISOC pursues its goals by coordinating and delivering hands-on technical training, seminars and conferences on topical Internet issues; supporting local and regional Internet organisations; issuing briefings and white papers on Internet technologies; and funding participation opportunities for Internet experts in developing countries. [6]

ISOC today is the parent company for the Public Interest Registry, which runs the .ORG top-level domain. Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit corporation created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the.

ISOC has joint offices in Virginia, United States and Geneva, Switzerland. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking It has also established "Regional Bureaus" for Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society is its governing body.

The current board of Trustees is composed of

Officers

Chapters

References

  1. ^ Internet Society (ISOC) - Introduction to ISOC
  2. ^ Internet Society (ISOC) - Introduction to ISOC
  3. ^ Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet
  4. ^ Internet Society (ISOC) - ISOC's Standards Activities
  5. ^ Internet Society - Public Policy - ISOC's Public Policy Activities
  6. ^ Internet Society (ISOC) - ISOC's Education Activities

See also

External links

Internet Society - Bulgaria is a non-governmental organization (NGO founded on December 4, 1995 in Sofia by a group of Bulgarian Internet professionals The Luxembourg Chapter of the Internet Society is a part of the global Internet Society and is a not-for-profit organization The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC serves the Internet Society ’s purposes by serving the interests of the global Internet community through Prior to the widespread internetworking that led to the Internet most communication networks were limited by their nature to only allow communications between the stations on the network and Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf His contributions have been recognized repeatedly with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, and
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