| Title | Founder |
| Start Date | 1992-00-00 |
| Notes | In 1992 Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and Lyman Chapin announced the formation of the Internet Society as "a professional society to facilitate, support, and promote the evolution and growth of the Internet as a global research communications infrastructure," which would incorporate the IAB, the IETF, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), plus the organization of the annual INET meetings.[18] This arrangement was formalized in RFC1602 in 1993.[19] |