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Chapter 3  Managing digital business infrastructure

The Internet Society (www.isoc.org)

The Internet Society (ISOC) is a professional membership society formed in 1992. It sum-

marises its aims as

To provide leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the 

organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including 

the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

A key aspect of the society’s mission statement (www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/ 

mission) is:

To assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of 

people throughout the world.

Although it focuses on technical issues of standards and protocols, it is also conscious of how 

these will affect global society.