Who Governs the Internet(Source: Krol, 1994)
Internet has a council of elders: a group of invited volunteers called the Internet Architecture Board or IAB. IAB is responsible for standards, keeping track of of various numbers (and other things) which must remain unique
Internet has no president or CEO
The ultimate authority: the Internet Society (ISOC)
(appoints the council of elders) which is a voluntary membership organization whose purpose is to promote global information exchange through Internet technology
Internet users expresses their opinions through the meetings of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which meets to discuss short term operational and technical problems of the Internet