This is a list of Internet organizations, or organizations that play or played a key role in the evolution of the Internet by developing recommendations, standards, and technology; deploying infrastructure and services; and addressing other major issues. Standards development and broad-based advocacy and educational organizations IAB (Internet Architecture Board) ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) ISOC (Internet Society) NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group) NRO (Number Resource Organization) W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) OTF (Open Technology Fund) EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) AfriNIC (African Network Information Centre) ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre) LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre) RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) United Nations bodies Internet Governance Forum World Summit on the Information Society Working Group on Internet Governance Research and education organizations Merit (Merit Network, Inc.) NLR (National LambdaRail) Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) Accessibility and affordability initiatives Internet.org Alliance for Affordable Internet Commercial organizations Commercial organizations that made early and significant contributions to the development of the Internet or services available on the Internet: Amazon.com AOL (America Online) eBay Facebook Flickr Google LinkedIn Network Solutions (NSI) Twitter Yahoo! YouTube Instagram SourceForge Historical organizations Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past: Advanced Network and Services (ANS) DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) InterNIC NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) PSINet UUNet Internet Internet org Internet org