Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Internet standards
The IETF is the premier Internet standards organization. It follows open and well-documented processes for setting these standards.
The Internet, a loosely-organized international collaboration of autonomous, interconnected networks, supports communication through voluntary adherence to open protocols and procedures defined by Internet Standards.
From its inception, the Internet has been, and is expected to remain, an evolving system whose participants regularly factor new requirements and technology into its design and implementation. Therefore, improving existing standards and creating, implementing, and deploying new standards is an ongoing effort. Users of the Internet and providers of the equipment, software, and services that support it should anticipate and embrace this evolution as a major tenet of Internet philosophy.
The IETF's mission is produce high quality, relevant technical documents that describe these voluntary standards.
RFCs
Memos in the Requests for Comments (RFC) document series contain technical and organizational notes about the Internet.
Internet-Drafts
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the IETF, its areas, and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
IANA
The global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources is performed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
Intellectual property rights
The IETF standards process provides a mechanism for filing disclosures regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
Standards process
The process of creating an Internet Standard is straightforward: a specification undergoes a period of development and several iterations of review by the Internet community and revision based upon experience.