Internet Society or ISOC.

Sri Lanka, May 24 -- The Internet Society or ISOC was founded in 1992 by Internet Pioneers as an International Non-Profit Organisation.

It has more than one hundred organizational members and many thousands of individual members with over 85 local chapters worldwide.

It has regional bureaus in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America and South Asia and South East Asia. The vision of ISOC is given below:

"We see a future in which people everywhere can use the Internet to improve the quality of life:.... when standards, technologies, business practices and government policies sustain an open and universally accessible platform for innovation, creativity and economic opportunity."

ISOC carries out many activities under three categories: standards, public policy and education. ISOC is the home for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) the main body for creating protocols and standards, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). In the policy category, ISOC works with the civil society, the private sector, and Governments. ISOC is prominently involved in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the Internet Governance area. ISOC has taken the lead of promoting and educating of IPV6. While ISOC had played a major role in training some of the Sri Lankan Internet Pioneers, currently it plays a major role in promoting and popularizing the internet throughout the world.

ISOC also promotes the use of local language content and domain names which are of primary importance to countries like Sri Lanka.

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