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Disclaimer: the European Commission provides information on links to other
external sites for information purposes only, and is not responsible for the
content or accuracy of the sites concerned.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned names and numbers (ICAAN) is the non-profit corporation responsible for the management of the domain name system.
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN is an advisory committee comprising representatives of national governments, multinational government organisations and treaty organisations, and Distinct Economies as recognised in international fora.
RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) is a collaborative organisation open to organisations and individuals,operating wide area IP networks in Europe and beyond. The objective of RIPE is to ensure the administrative and technical coordination necessary to enable operation of a pan-European IP network.
The Internet Engineering Task Force is 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.
The Council of European national top-level domian registries, such as .uk, .nl, .fr, .es, .de etc
EC-POP is the European Community Panel of Paticipants in Internet organisation and management.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation site on Internet Domain Names
The World Wide Web consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 150 organizational and 6,000 individual members in over 100 countries. It 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, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
EuroISPA is the pan-European association of the Internet services providers associations of the countries of the European Union.
Latest update: 27 May 2003