Internet governance

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) (French: Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet ACEI) is a non-profit Canadian corporation that is responsible for operating the .ca country code top-level domain. It was incorporated in 1998 and assumed operation of .ca on December 1st, 2000 from the University of British Columbia. CIRA is based in the national capital Ottawa, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Internet Registration Authority"

The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) is an international organization established to act as a peak body of top-level domain name registries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries"

The final section of the name '.com', '.biz', '.info', '.uk', '.de' is called the top-level domain (TLD). Some exhibit no affiliation with a particular country (like .com) and are called generic Top Level Domains (gTLD). These are operated by registrars appointed by ICANN. However, in addition, every country in the world has a two letter code (a country code TLD or ccTLD). ...more on Wikipedia about "Domain name registry"

ICANN (pronounced "I can") is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ...more on Wikipedia about "ICANN"

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) is the domain name registry for the .ie country code top-level domain. Formally, the IE Domain Registry Limited is a private company, limited by guarantee, incorporated in Ireland having its registered office and principal place of business in Sandycove, County Dublin. It operates on a not-for-profit basis and is a member of the CENTR representative body. IE Domain Registry Limited took over the administration of .ie in July 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "IE Domain Registry"

This article is about a new type of society called an Information Society. For other meanings see Information Society (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Information society"

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an international organization established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications. It was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris in May 17, 1865, and is today the world's oldest international organization. Its main tasks include standardization, allocation of the radio spectrum, and organizing interconnection arrangements between different countries to allow international phone calls. (In which regard it performs for telecommunications a similar function to what the UPU performs for postal services.) It is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, next to the main United Nations campus. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Telecommunication Union"

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society (ISOC). ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Architecture Board"

(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) :For other uses of IANA, see IANA (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority"

The Internet Engineering Steering Group is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force Chair and Area Directors: ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Engineering Steering Group"

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards; in particular those of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It is an open, all-volunteer standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Engineering Task Force"

Policies and mechanisms for Internet governance have been topics of heated debate between many different Internet stakeholders, not all of whom understand how it actually works today, and some of whom have very different visions for how and indeed whether the Internet should facilitate free communication of ideas and information. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet governance"

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will have an important influence on Internet governance in the future. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Governance Forum"

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is a sister group to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Its stated mission is “To promote research of importance to the evolution of the future Internet by creating focused, long-term and small Research Groups working on topics related to Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology”. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Research Task Force"

The Internet Society or ISOC is an international organization that promotes Internet use and access. It states that its mission is: ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Society"

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) was formed in 1996 following an agreement between the government, police and the internet service provider industry that a partnership approach was needed to tackle the distribution of child abuse images (often referred to as child pornography) online. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Watch Foundation"

InterNIC or Internet Network Information Center was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name and IP address allocations until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the ICANN body. It was accessed through the website internic.net which was run by Network Solutions, Inc and AT&T. ...more on Wikipedia about "InterNIC"

(ISOC Luxembourg) Category: Internet governance ...more on Wikipedia about "ISOC Luxembourg"

The Israeli Internet Association is a non-profit organization and .il country code top level domains ( ccTLD) registry. It was the second organization in the world to be accepted as a chapter of the Internet Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Israeli Internet Association"

A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an organization which has received an IP address allocation from a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), and which may assign parts of this allocation to its own customers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Local Internet Registry"

Nominet UK is the .uk domain name registry in the United Kingdom, which was founded by Dr Willie Black on 14 May, 1996 when its predecessor, the "Naming Committee" was unable to deal with the volume of registrations then being sought under the .uk domain. Nominet is a non-profit company limited by guarantee. It has 'members' who act as shareholders. Anyone can become a member, but most members are internet service providers who are also tagholders. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nominet UK"

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A Regional Internet Registry (RIR) is an organization overseeing the registration of numbering resources for a certain region of the world. Resources include IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, and Autonomous System numbers. There are 5 registries, all overseen by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA): ...more on Wikipedia about "Regional Internet Registry"

A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final 'dot' of any URL. For example, in the domain name wikipedia.org, the top-level domain is org (or ORG, as domain names are not case-sensitive). ...more on Wikipedia about "Top-level domain"

The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a document used by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN) for the purpose of creating guidelines for use when disputes arise regarding the registration of internet names ( domain names). ...more on Wikipedia about "Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy"

The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was a United Nations multistakeholder Working group set up after the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) first phase Summit in Geneva to agree on the future of Internet governance. The first phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed to pursue the dialogue on Internet Governance in the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003, with a view to preparing the ground for a decision at the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in November 2005. In this regard, the first phase of the Summit requested the United Nations Secretary-General to establish a Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The WGIG was asked to present the result of its work in a report "for consideration and appropriate action" for the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Working Group on Internet Governance"

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