Must Read:

• Making Standards the IETF Way by D. Crocker / Brandenburg Consulting
  http://www.isoc.org/internet/standards/papers/crocker-on-standards.shtml
• World Wide Web Consortium Process Document: Recommendations
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/#Recs

Internet and Web Standards Organizations

• The Internet Society
  http://www.isoc.org/
  • Internet Architecture Board
    http://www.iab.org/
    • The Internet Research Task Force
      http://www.irtf.org/
    • The Internet Engineering Task Force
      http://www.ietf.org/
    • The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
      http://www.iana.org/
    • The RFC Editor
      http://www.rfc-editor.org/
  • The Internet Society Chicago Chapter
    http://www.isoc-chicago.org/
• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  http://www.icann.org/
  • The Address Supporting Organization of ICANN
    http://www.aso.icann.org/
  • Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN
    http://www.dnso.org/
    • Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency
      http://www.ncdnhc.org/
    • DNSO Business Constituency
      http://www.bcdnso.org/
    • The ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO (country code Top Level Domains)
      http://www.wwtld.org/
• Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding
  http://www.gtld-mou.org/
• Internet Software Consortium
  http://www.isc.org/
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  http://www.w3c.org/
• The Web Standards Project
  http://www.webstandards.org/
• International World Wide Web Conference Committee
  http://www.iw3c2.org/
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
  http://www.caida.org/
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  http://www.arpa.mil/
• National Science Foundation
  http://www.nsf.gov/
• European Computer Manufacturers' Association
  http://www.ecma.ch/
• International Organization for Standardization
  http://www.iso.ch/
• Internet2
  http://www.internet2.edu/

• Association for Interactive Media
  http://www.interactivehq.org/
• Association of Ethical Internet Professionals
  http://www.aeip.com/
• Computer Trade Industry Association (CompTIA)
  http://www.comptia.org/
• The Internet Alliance
  http://www.internetalliance.org/
• The Internet Content Coalition
  http://www.netcontent.org/
• Internet Education Foundation
  http://www.neted.org/
• Internet Mail Consortium
  http://www.imc.org/
• Internet Professional Publishers Association
  http://www.ippa.org/
• Internet Service Providers' Consortium
  http://www.ispc.org/
• The United States Internet Council
  http://www.usic.org/
• US Internet Industry Association (formerly the Association of Online Professionals)
  http://www.usiia.org/
• Web Host Guild
  http://whg.org/
• WWW Chamber Of Commerce
  http://www.webchamber.com

• Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia
  http://www.aaim.org/
• Association for Computing Machinery
  http://www.acm.org/
  • Association for Computing Machinery Chicago Chapter
    http://www.acm.org/chapters/chicago/
  • Chi-Squared: Chicago area chapter of ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction)
    http://www.acm.org/chapters/chi-sqrd/
  • IIT ACM Student Chapter
    http://www.iit.edu/~acm/
• Association of African American Web Developers
  http://www.aaawd.org/
• Association of Information Technology Professionals
  http://www.aitp.org/
  • AITP Windy City Chapter
    http://www.wcc.cc.il.us/c147/
• Association of Internet Professionals
  http://www.association.org/
  • Association of Internet Professionals Chicago Chapter
    http://www.aipchicago.org/
• Association for Multimedia Communications
  http://www.amcomm.org/
• Association of Online Professionals
  (see the US Internet Industry Association above)
• Association of Web Professionals
  http://www.a-w-p.org/
• Chicago Interactive Marketing Association
  http://www.chicagoima.org/
  CIMA is one of several unrelated regional associations, all sharing the "Interactive Marketing Association" moniker; other "IMA's" include:
  the Austin Interactive Marketing Association , the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association, the Dallas/Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Association, the Great Lakes Interactive Marketing Association, and the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association
• HTML Writers Guild (merging with International Webmasters Association)
  http://www.hwg.org/
• Internet Developers Association (merged into the Association of Internet Professionals)
  
• The International Alliance of Web Developers
  http://www.iawd.org/
• International Association of Business Communicators
  http://www.iabc.com/
  • IABC Chicago Chapter
    http://www.iabc.com/chapters/us_4/chicago/index.html
• International Association of Web Masters & Designers
  http://www.iawmd.com/
• International Interactive Communications Society (merged into the Association of Internet Professionals)
  
• International Webmasters Association
  http://www.irwa.org/
  • IWA Chicago Chapter
    http://www.iafringe.com/iwa-chicago/
• National Webmasters Guild (merged into the Association of Internet Professionals)
• Society of Internet Professionals (primarily Canadian)
  http://www.sipgroup.org/
• Web Design and Developers Association
  http://www.wdda.org/
• Webgrrls International
  http://www.webgrrls.com/
  • Chicago Webgrrls (currently inactive)
    http://www.webgrrls.com/chicago_il
• The Webmasters Guild (merged into the Association of Internet Professionals)
• World Organization of Webmasters
  http://www.joinwow.org/
• World Wide Web Artists' Consortium
  http://www.wwwac.org/

• Today's Cooperative Competitive Standards Environment For Open Information and Telecommunication Networks and the Internet Standards-Making Model by Anthony M. Rutkowski
  http://www.isoc.org/internet/standards/papers/amr-on-standards.shtml
• RFC 2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
  http://trygstad.rice.iit.edu/courses/rfc2026.html
• IETF RFC Index
  http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietf.html
• A Novice's Guide to the IETF by Paul Hoffman, Director, Internet Mail Consortium
  http://www.imc.org/novice-ietf.html

• World Wide Web Consortium Process Document
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/

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