The Internet Society

"The mission of the Internet Society (ISOC) is to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world."

ISOC is "a professional membership society with more than 150 organization and 16,000 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..."