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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF, www.ietf.org)

This is one of the main technical bodies. It is an international community of network design-

ers, operators, vendors and researchers concerned with the development of the Internet’s 

architecture and its transport protocols such as IP. Significant subgroups are the Internet 

Architecture Board, a technical advisory group of ISOC with a wide range of responsibilities, 

and the Internet Engineering Steering Group, which is responsible for overseeing the activi-

ties of the IETF and the Internet standards process.