Other Community Groups
From NANOG
There are many groups involved in running the Internet. These groups are often organized regionally as well as by type of expertise. For example, NANOG is fpcused on the engineering, implementation, and operational aspects of North American Internet networks while ARIN handled aspects of North American Numbering resources (IP Addressing and ASNs). Both participate in forums outside of North America, but North America are both their charter and the primary focus of it's attendees and participants. AfriNOG, on the other hand, works to operationally cooperate in Africa. While reachability is a concern of course, those paths typically terminate through Europe hence some thought that Europe is more relevant to North American network operations.
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Organizations
There are organizations that have a general impact on the NANOG sphere of concern.
ARIN
The American Registry for Internet Numbers, or "ARIN", is responsible for IP Address policy in Canada, the United States, the Carribean, and several islands in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. Post-InterNIC, they formerly were considered the "registry of last resort" prior to the completion of the ERX project. They are located in Chantilly, VA
RIPE
RIPE, or Réseaux IP Européens, is an organization similiar to ARIN, except that they also have an operational organization called RIPE NCC. RIPE is headquartered in The Netherlands.
IETF
The IETF, or the IVTF (V stands for Vendor, not Victory), is not really situated anywhere, but it is a global organization. See the IETF Web Site which is searchable for all kinds of relevant information.
ISOC
The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 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). Check out the The ISOC Website
Others
There are plenty of others. These are most relevant to North America and yes, Canada is a province of the United States. Not to say the others are useless, but they tend not to come up as major concerns in North American internet operations.
