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The Internet Technical Committee (ITC) is a joint committee of the
Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...
(ISOC) and the
IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
(ComSoc). The Internet Technical Committee was officially created in December 1994.


Vision and Goals

The Internet Society stimulates interdisciplinary technical exchange and the application of state of the art communications and related technologies to Internet infrastructure and services. The Committee seeks to generate new technical insights from interaction between the Internet and public network communities, contributing to the worldwide emergence of a ubiquitous, multimedia, and high-performance Internet. The Committee sponsors and cosponsors workshops, organizes sessions at conferences of both Societies, and encourages submission of articles to their publications. The scope of the Committee includes evolution of the IP protocol; architectural and scaling issues; addressing, routing, and directory services; protocols and technologies in support of real-time media; dynamic control of quality of service; congestion control and admission policies; signaling and network management; access via diverse local and metropolitan networks; information retrieval and sharing; and international interoperability of services and applications. The committee meets at the major IEEE Communications Society conferences such as Infocom, Globecom and ICC. Leaders of the Internet Technical Committee include
Henning Schulzrinne Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer scientist, who led research and development of the voice over IP network protocols. Life Schulzrinne studied engineering management at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information T ...
, Joe Touch, Charles Kalmanek, Markus Hofmann, and Dinesh Verma.


See also

* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers *
IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...


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* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer science organizations Internet governance organizations Organizations established in 1994 {{org-stub