Community and Partners
Community
Along with our natural partners - our members and chapters, IETF and the PIR - the Internet Society is embedded within a fabric of Internet organizations, each with its own role to play and pursuing its own mission, but motivated by a common vision of an open and accessible Internet.
The Public Internet Registry is a good example of a natural Internet Society partner. We created PIR top operate the .org top-level domain registry when ICANN awarded that registry to ISOC in 2003. The partnership between ISOC and PIR is largely focused on educational and outreach activities, including those that concern the Domain Name System and registry operations. Each partner benefits substantially from the support and cooperation of the other, with the result that efforts on both sides are leveraged beyond what could be achieved by either partner acting alone.
In our partnerships with other organizations, such as the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) or the IPV6 Forum, we extend our ability to achieve education and public policy goals and collaborating with the IETF and Internet2 increases the effectiveness of our standards activities. In all of these examples, the key element is individual organizations doing what each does best, coordinating their activities to create the greatest possible impact.
