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Oficial Internet Entities and Organizations

• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working is about engineering, development and standardization of the Internet, as an arm of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), a group of technical consulting from the Internet Society (ISOC). The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The group was formally estabilished by the IAB in 1986.
• Request for Comments (RFC) Editor - Internet Documentation
  The Requests for Comments (RFCs) form a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computer communication, focusing on networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite are defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
  For nearly 30 years, The RFC Editor was Jon Postel; today the RFC Editor is a small group funded by the Internet Society.
  RFC (Request For Comments) - document series describing the Internet suite of protocols and related experiments, STD (The Standards), BCP (Best Current Practices) & FYI (For Your Information) sub-series of the RFCs.
  Searching and Retrieving RFCs from the RFC Editor Site - RFC Database:
  
  • Official Internet Protocol Standards
  • Search the RFC Index (TXT ASCII+ or PDF) | Full RFC Index | RFCs by Category
  Alternative RFC Repositories. Documentation archives mirror sites:
  • HTMLized RFCs and I-Ds by IETF Tools
    HTML RFC Index by IETF Applications.
    IETF RFC Page - Request for Comments: TXT retrieval by RFC number | RFC Index list (no links).
  • FAQs.org - Internet RFC/STD/FYI/BCP Archives
    By Internet FAQ Consortium. ISOC / IANA / IAB / ITU / INTA / WIPO. Formato texto puro exibido em HTML, com links.
  • RFC.net: repository of RFC, STD, BCP and FYI documents (HTML formated with links).
  • RFC HyperText Archive hosted by SunSITE Denmark, maintained by Brian Grunnet. Also as rfc.dotsrc.org.
  • The RFC Archive - rfc-archive.org.
  • IETF Document Archives mirror
    RFC, STD, BCP, FYI, IESG (IETF Steering Group), IETF activities, Internet-Drafts, Internet Monthly Reports (Internet Research Group).
  • HyperRFC - Hyper-linked RFC: search plain-text RFCs with hyperlinks.
  • Roxen Community: Developers: Internet Documents
    RFCs, Internet Drafts. HTML formatted, full-text search.
  • RFC-Ignorant.org is the clearinghouse for sites who think that the rules of the internet don't apply to them.
  • Google Directory: Internet RFCs
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  O projeto World Wide Web - WWW (A Teia Mundial) foi inicialmente desenvolvido no CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, em 1991. A primeira especificação da linguagem HTML - HyperText Markup Language - foi definida por Tim Berners-Lee, no CERN. Atualmente, a documentação original do CERN é mantida pelo W3C.
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
  WHATWG community, maintaining and evolving HTML since 2004.
  WHATWG Blog, IRC, Forums, Specs, Mailing Lists (Help for web designers, Specifications feedback, Implementors notes), Wiki.
• WS-I: Web Services Interoperability Organization
  The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. The organization brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders, including standardization organizations and software, hardware and e-bussiness leader companies. WS-I effort aim to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services.
• Internet FAQ Consortium
  Internet FAQ Archives: Internet RFCs (Requests For Comments), Usenet FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), Other FAQs.
• Utrecht CS News.Answers FAQ Archives
• Internet Society (ISOC)
• Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
  The IAB is chartered both as a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). Its responsibilities include architectural oversight of IETF activities, Internet Standards Process oversight and appeal, and the appointment of the RFC Editor. The IAB is also responsible for the management of the IETF protocol parameter registries.
• Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
• Internet Software Consortium (ISC)

Internet Domain Assignement

• Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA)
  Organization responsible by the distribuition of Top-Level Domains (TLD). IANA Domain Names Services: Top-Level Domains and Documentation.
  There are two primary types of top-level domains: generic and country code. Generic domains were created for use by the Internet public, while country code domains were created to be used by each individual country as they deemed necessary.
  Top-Level Domains (TLD):
  
  • Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
    Generic Domains (.aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .edu, .gov, .info, .int, .mil, .museum, .name, .net, .org, and .pro).
  • Country Code Top-Level Domains (CCTLDs)
    Country Code Domains (.br, .jp, .uk, etc.) IANA CCTLD Database
    Root-Zone Whois Information - Index by Country TLD Code (CCTLD).
  • Infrastructure Domain (.arpa)
• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  The ICANN is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions, previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
  ICANN Supporting Organizations:
  
  • Address Supporting Organization (ASO): IP addressing.
  • Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Former dnso.org - Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO).
  • Protocol Supporting Organization (PSO): unique parameters for the Internet protocols.
• Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
  The Regional Internet Registries have each contributed equally to the formation of the ASO - ICANN Address Supporting Organization, by way of a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 18 October 1999. Each RIR is responsible for managing Internet Protocol (IP) address space in their own region.
  
  • African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) - Africa
  • Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) - Asia and Pacific region
  • American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) - North America (and parts of the Caribbean)
  • Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) - Latin America and most parts of the Caribbean
  • RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) - Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia
• ICANN gTLD Registrar List
  ICANN List of Accredited and Accreditation-Qualified Registrars.
  List of registrar institutions accredited or qualified by ICANN. They are the companies from which you can register a domain name under a generic top-level domain (.COM, .ORG, .NET).
  The InterNIC Accredited Registrar Directory
• The InterNIC - Internet Network Information Center
  Entidade que foi, até 1993, responsável pelo registros de domínio top-level (primeiro nível) genéricos .com, .net e .org na Internet.
  InterNIC® é marca de serviço registrada do Departamento de Comércio dos E.U. O InterNIC foi uma atividade cooperativa entre o Governo dos E.U.A. e a Network Solutions, Inc.
  The InterNIC FAQ
  Registry WHOIS
• Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI)
  Since 1993, Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), has been the only provider of domain name registration services in the .com, .net and .org top-level domains pursuant to a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Government. In October 1998, the Cooperative Agreement was amended to reflect NSI's commitment to develop a protocol and associated software supporting a system that permits multiple registrars to provide registration services within .com, .net and .org -- known as the "Shared Registration System."
  Information on the implementation of NSI's Shared Registration System will be available at NSI Registry (also www.nsiregistry.com).

  In addition to NSI, many registrars are being accredited worldwide to register domain names in .com, .net, and .org gTLDs. The registrar accreditation process is being conducted by the ICANN. The U.S. Government, in its efforts to privatize the management of the domain name system, expects that increasing competition in domain name registration services will provide the global Internet community with a number of benefits, including greater choice in services and prices. More information is available at National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce.

• Internet International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC):
  Dissolvido em 1 de maio de 1997. Era uma coalizão de participantes de toda a comunidade Internet, trabalhando para obter requerimentos para evoluções no sistema de nome de domínios global da Internet (Domain Name System - DNS). Organizações membros do Comitê: ISOC, IANA, IAB, FNC, ITU, INTA, WIPO.
  A organização subsequente é The Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD).
  See the site GTLD Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU).

Internet Content Rating

• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
  The PICS specification by the W3C enables labels (metadata) to be associated with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.
• ICRA: Internet Content Rating Association
  The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, independent organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open and objective labelling of content. ICRA's dual aims are to: protect children from potentially harmful material; and to protect free speech on the internet.
  Professional website labelling: Choice not censorship, ICRA documentation for webmasters, version 2.2, published March 2004.
  ICRA Label generator - generates RDF rating label file.
  Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC) was "folded into" ICRA in 1999.
• SafeSurf
  Rate Your Site (with the SafeSurf Rating System).

Brazilian Internet Entities

• Internet Management Committee of Brazil
  A principal regulamentação do Comitê Gestor é a Resolution # 1: O documento é um resumo das regras atualmente adotadas pela FAPESP para o registro de domínios no País, bem como as normas para a cobrança e pagamento das taxas. (Resolução N° 001/98, 15 de Abril de 1998, MCT - Secretaria de Política de Informática e Automação, publicada no Diário Oficial da União - DoU).
• Registro.br [Brazil]
  Registro.br FAQ - Questões mais frequentes
  
  • Top Level Domains (TLDs) of Brazil
    Categoria de domínio definidas no Brasil para Instituições (pessoas jurídicas), Profissionais Liberais e Nomes (pessoas físicas).
  • Pesquisas de Informação
    Domínios, Usuários e Reversos cadastrados, Verificação de DNS, Traceroute.

Web Authors Community

Forums & Discussion Lists

• Listas de Discussão WDBrasil [In Portuguese]
  Discussion lists in Portuguese, covering Web Development and interactive media.
• Yahoo! Groups: Webmasters
  Computers & Internet : Internet : Webmasters .
• devForums
  Databases, Developer Tools, Languages & Technologies, Operating Systems, Server Software, Web Development.

Associations

• The HTML Writers Guild
  The HTML Writers Guild is the world's largest international organization of Web authors, with over 85,000 members in more than 130 nations worldwide.
• International Webmasters Association - IWA
  Alternatively as irwa.org.
• World Organization of Webmasters (WOW)
  As a non-profit membership supported organization, the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) is dedicated to keeping up with this frantic pace, providing education, support, and guidance in all key aspects of this new frontier.
• International United WebMasters Association
• Interactive Advertising Bureau - IAB
  IAB - Dedicated to the continued growth of the interactive advertising marketplace.

Conferences

• Web Design & Development Conference (WEB99)
• Thunder Lizard Productions Conferences
  • Web Builder 2.0
  • Web Design World