Who else has been a player in the sundry bureaucratic machinations?
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the USG Department of Commerce IANA, http://www.iana.org/, authority supervising IP allocation, definition of Internet protocol standards, and managing the DNS, including delegating top-level domains and overseeing the root name server system Internet Society (ISOC), http://www.isoc.org/ International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC or Ad Hoc Committee) (failed), http://www.iahc.org/ World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) International Telecommunications Union (ITU), http://www.itu.int/ Federal Networking Council (FNC) Council of Internet Registrars (CORE), Switzerland, http://www.corenic.org/ Policy Oversight Committee (POC) (proposed, failed) APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), http://www.apnic.net/, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) distributing IP addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, China, and Australia. RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens), http://www.ripe.net/, the Reg
