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Are There Internet Regulations?

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

There are Internet regulation bodies that work behind the scenes, so to speak, to keep everything running semi-smoothly. Here are the main Internet regulation entities:

Internet Regulation Groups

  • The Internet Society: Provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards.
  • The Internet Architecture Board. Responsibilities include Internet standards and oversight.
  • Internet Engineering Task Force. A 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.
  • InterNIC. Provides public information regarding Internet domain name registration services.
  • PFIR-People for Internet Responsibility. A group of people concerned about the present and future operations, development, management, and regulation of the Internet.
  • ICANN.org. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for the Internet.
For more information about the Internet, read my article titled A Short History of the Internet.

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