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===The Internet Society===
The [[Internet Society]] (ISOC) is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". With offices near Washington, DC, US, and in Geneva, Switzerland, ISOC has a membership base comprising more than 80 organizational and more than 50,000 individual members. Members also form "chapters" based on either common geographical location or special interests. There are currently more than 90 chapters around the world.<ref name="isoc.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.internetsociety.org/|title=Build, Promote, and Defend the Internet|website=Internet Society}}</ref>

ISOC provides financial and organizational support to and promotes the work of the standards settings bodies for which it is the organizational home: the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF), the [[Internet Architecture Board]] (IAB), the [[Internet Engineering Steering Group]] (IESG), and the [[Internet Research Task Force]] (IRTF). ISOC also promotes understanding and appreciation of the [[Internet model]] of open, transparent processes and consensus-based decision-making.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/open-internet-standards/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213013231/https://www.isoc.org/standards/|title=Open Internet Standards|archive-date=December 13, 2011}}</ref>