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Standards Groups, Associations, and Organizations

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The primary groups, standards, and organizations related to networking and the Internet are listed in the following table. Refer to the related entries page for more information. A complete list of standards organizations, associations, consortiums, and other groups would fill a whole book. Therefore, this section provides links to sites on the Web that have links to standards groups, organizations, and associations. Also refer to "Internet," "Internet Standards," and "Internet Organizations and Committees" for information about Internet- related organizations and standards.

ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), a great information site	http://www.acm.org/
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)	http://www.ansi.org
Committee T1	http://www.t1.org/
EIA (Electronic Industries Association)	http://www.eia.org
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)	http://www.etsi.org/
FCC (Federal Communications Commission), a great site for radio and wireless information	http://www.fcc.gov/
IAB (Internet Architecture Board)	http://www.iab.org/iab/
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)	http://www.iana.org/
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)	http://www.icann.org/
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)	http://www.iec.ch/
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), Inc.	http://www.ieee.org/
IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force)	http://www.ietf.org/
Information Technology Association of America	http://www.itaa.org/
Internet Society	http://www.isoc.org/
IRTF (Internet Research Task Force)	http://www.irtf.org/
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)	http://www.iso.ch
ITU (International Telecommunications Union)	http://www.itu.ch
NSF (National Science Foundation)	http://www.nsf.gov/
The Open Group	http://www.opengroup.org/
TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association)	http://www.tiaonline.org/
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)	http://www.w3c.org