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The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, access, and policy. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". It has offices in Reston, Virginia and Geneva, Switzerland. It has also established "Regional Bureaus" for Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. Its motto is "The Internet is for Everyone".

Organization
The Internet Society is a cause-based organization. It has staff, including the five regional bureaus, plus individual members, organizational members, Chapters, and Special Interest Groups. It is governed by an elected Board of Trustees.

History
In 1991 the NSF contract with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) to operate the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) expired. The then Internet Activities Board (IAB) sought to create a non-profit institution that could take over that role. In 1992 Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and Lyman Chapin announced the formation of the Internet Society as "a professional society to facilitate, support, and promote the evolution and growth of the Internet as a global research communications infrastructure," which would incorporate the IAB, the IETF, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), plus the organization of the annual INET meetings. . This arrangement was formalized in RFC1602 in 1993.

In 1995 ISOC launched the annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), which fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners in associated fields.

In 1999, after Jon Postel's death, ISOC established the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The award has been presented every year since 1999 by the Internet Society to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community."

In 1999, the Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF) was formed as a societal companion to the IETF and, through its efforts, in 2000 ISOC was recognized by UNESCO as an operational partner. . The ISTF was disbanded at the end of 2001, and its functions taken over by ISOC's policy team.

In December 2001, it was decided to make individual membership of the Internet Society free, and open to all.

In 2002 ISOC successfully bid for the .org registry and formed the Public Interest Registry (PIR), to manage and operate it.

In 2010, ISOC launched its first community network initiative to deploy five wireless mesh based networks in rural locations across India.

In 2012, on ISOC's 20th anniversary, it established the Internet Hall of Fame, an award to "publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet".

In June 8 2011 ISOC mounted World IPv6 Day to test IPv6 deployment.

In 2012 ISOC launched Deploy360, a portal and training program to promote IPv6 and DNSSEC.

Following the success of World IPv6 Day in 2011, on June 6, 2012 ISOC organized the World IPv6 Launch, this time with the intention of leaving IPv6 permanently enabled on all participating sites.

In 2016 Deploy 360 extended its campaigns to include Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE).

In 2017 ISOC's North America Region launched an annual Indigenous Connectivity Summit with an event in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In subsequent years the event has been held in Inuvik, NWT, and Hilo, Hawaii.

In December 2017 ISOC absorbed standards body Online Trust Alliance (OTA) which produces an annual Online Trust Audit, a Cyber Incident Response Guide, and an Internet of Things (IoT) Trust Framework.

In January 2018 the New York Times reported on an ISOC community network project in the Caucasus Mountains.

Activities
The Internet Society's current action plan defines three strategic goals: Build, Promote, and Defend. These are further broken down into eight projects:
 * 1) Building community networks.
 * 2) Fostering infrastructure and technical communities.
 * 3) Measuring the Internet.
 * 4) Promoting the Internet way of networking.
 * 5) Securing global routing.
 * 6) Extending encryption.
 * 7) Increasing Time Security.
 * 8) Leading by example with open standards and protocols.

Sale of PIR
In 2019 the Internet Society agreed to the sale of Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. a transaction expected to complete in early 2020. The Internet Society has said it plans to use the proceeds to fund an endowment.

The sale has met with some opposition, since it involves the transfer of what is viewed as a public asset to a private equity investment firm.