KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

The United Nations system have published recently a web site dedicated to the Climate Change issue that explains this "important problem" and follows works and progress being done to tackle the global situation.

The main actors of Internet regulation are mainly american :

- ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) : manage the distribution and use of the adress (Dns adresses (http:// ...) and IP adresses) : the adressing system.

- Iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) : controls numbers for protocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains for US (.edu, .mil) and maintains the IP Address allotments.

- Verisign : private amercian company in charge of the technical management of the whole infrastructure service

...then into ICANN, several organisations to highlight :

- ASO (Address Supporting Organization) : responsible for reviewing and developing recommendations on IP address policy ..working in collaboration with the RIR (Regional Internet Registries).

- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) : responsible for the IP adresses in North America
- RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Europe

- APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Asia

- LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in South America

- ccNSO (Country Code Name Supporting Organization) : for national domain names (.fr, .it, ..) with the ccTLD Registries

- gNSO (Generic Name Supporting Organization) : for global domain names  (.com, .net…) with the gTLD Registries

- Registrars : accredited domain names sellers
- RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee)

Technical Engineering and Management

- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) : normalisation multimedia languages like html

- ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) : normalisation telecommunication norms

- ITU (International Telecommunications Union) : United nations Agency

- IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force : architecture and technical recommandations for the internet

Internet Society representation

- ISOC (Internet Society)

- ALAC (At-Large Advisory Council) : elected members to represent internet users