2-4 February, 2005
San Diego, CA, USA
NSA: Patron Sponsor

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Sixty-second Meeting
Minneapolis, MN, USA
March 6 - 11, 2005
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World Summit on the Information Society
2003 Geneva
2005 Tunisia
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IPv6 Events Worldwide

The Internet Society is a non-profit, non-governmental, international, professional membership organization. Its more than 100 organization members and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 nations worldwide represent a veritable who's who of the Internet community. You should be a member, too. The work of the Internet Society focuses on four "pillars:" standards, public policy, education and training, and membership. Find out about joining us today! «Sobre La Sociedad Internet»

Standards ISOC is the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Steering Group, and the Internet Research Task Force. Specific activities include support for the RFC Editor Function of the IETF.

Public Policy ISOC is active in areas such as censorship/freedom of expression, taxation, governance, and intellectual property.

Education & Training The Internet Society has helped train many of the key information technology leaders around the world through programs such as the annual Network Training Workshops (NTW), Sustainable Internet Training Centers (SITCs), and sponsorship of the Internet Fiesta.

Membership Membership activities include provision of services for organizational and individual members, and support for ISOC chapters worldwide.

Helping those in need. All of us at ISOC were saddened  by the  loss of life and devastation caused by the Asian tsunamis.  We encourage you to  help the hundreds of thousands of children and families struggling to survive the aftermath of this terrible tragedy by making a donation to UNICEF today.
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• New Administrative Structure for World's Leading Internet Standards Group
• Call for nominations for election to the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
• IETF Administrative Director Position Opening
• ISOC’s network security symposium NDSS'05 will convene in San Diego in the first week of February. There is still time to register. Learn more about the 12th annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
• Internet Society Announces New Board Members for Public Interest Registry
• HP Chief Science Officer Stephen Squires Joins ISOC Board
• Briefing paper: Internationalizing Top-Level Domain Names: Another Look

Public Interest Registry
The New Home of the .ORG Registry

Authors interested in submitting articles for publication on the Internet Society website should submit them to: briefings@isoc.org Depending upon content, the articles will appear in the appropriate publications section.

What is the Internet Society? What have we achieved and what are our plans for the future? Answers to these questions and more can be found in ISOC's Annual Report.

Developed with the assistance of ISOC experts from the business, social, academic and technical communities, briefing papers briefly highlight some of the key issues in each topic area and discuss the possible
implications for the Internet industry. The Member Briefing Series covers three distinct areas:
• Technical member briefings
• IPv6 member briefings
• Societal member briefings

Regular articles submitted by Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist in the Internet area for Telstra.