ISOC is a natural successor to manage .ORG
Foremost non-commercial organization focused on the Internet
- Tradition of working in the public interest
- Over 10,000 individual members (free membership), over 65% outside North America
- 85% of chapters outside North America
- Over 137 organizational members, including many non-commercials
- Strong globally diverse board
ISOC will create the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to manage .ORG
- Separate nonprofit company to contract with ICANN
- Board appointed by ISOC
- PIR policies derived from ISOC’s principles
- PIR will contract with Afilias for back-end registry services