Organizations

Created by Congress to produce recommendations on electronic commerce and tax policy, critical information age issues with global implications.

ARIN is the regional registry of IP and ASN numbers for North America, South America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Trade organization whose aim is to promote the region's economy through technical conferences, informative data compilation, and development of industry standards.

Regional Internet Registry that allocates IP and AS numbers in the Asia Pacific region. Has a "whois" database that holds information on network contacts for Asia Pacific IP addresses.

The AEL is a Belgian-based association whose main goal is finding and supporting non-proprietary software. Has mailing list to join.

Organization to promote web development by African Americans. Open to professional and students engaged in web work. Resources include fee estimator, employment listing, java and javascript assistance.

Organization devoted to the study of the Internet and its various impacts from multidisciplinary fields. Academic based with listserv.

A trade association of internetwork service providers promoting internetworking on a global scale. Has list of and links to members and vendors

Association of computer product vendors and communications firms lobbying for free trade and open markets

The goal of this site is to provide broad and detailed source of information on the Internet regarding standard setting and consortia. Forming a consortium, branding, articles.

An initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies dedicated to privatizing or creating cooperative public and private enterprise to increase access to the Internet

Home page of an association of individuals or organizations rallied around the theme ICT for Development.

IANA controls numbers for protocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains and maintains the IP Address allotments.

Group based in California holds meetings and uses web site to explaining evolving Internet Technologies. Issues include: Security, Privacy, Searching, Bandwidth and alternative access media and devices.

Large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.