ietf.org
IETF
Who runs IETF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Internet standards organization alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- w3.org
Measured from IETF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit IETF01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs IETF
IETF ietf.org
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Wikidata: Open Internet standards organization
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What IETF tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
9 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to IETF
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to IETF, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
Very close - 02
RFC Editor
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Very close - 03
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 04
ITU: Connecting the world and beyond
The United Nations agency for digital technologies
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American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering
Very close - 06
Welcome - ETSI
ETSI provides an open, collaborative environment to develop globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications, and services.
Very close - 07
international standards development organization
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Home - Ecma International
general-purpose programming language on which JavaScript and other languages are based
Close - 09
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification
Very close - 10
Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
Close - 11
international standards development organization
Close - 12
Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone - Internet Society
The Internet Society is a global charity working to close the digital divide and advocate for a secure and open Internet that people can trust.
Close - 13
American standards development organization
Close - 14
Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
project to standardise HTML class-name based formats
Close - 15
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close - 16
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
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CEN-CENELEC - CEN-CENELEC
Close - 18
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 19
Afnic, Internet domain name registry solution Home - Afnic
Afnic is the Internet registry for .fr (France), .re (Ile de la Réunion), .pm (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon), .yt (Mayotte), .wf and .tf domain names.
Very close - 20
American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARIN is a nonprofit, member-based organization that administers IP addresses & ASNs in support of the operation and growth of the Internet.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles IETF’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones IETF uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what IETF adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to IETF’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa6a5a4303be-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:166.84.6.31 ip4:166.84.7.238 ip6:2602:f977:800:f7f6::/64 i…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ken.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=NQpGlv9isd8O_RHzO31C0lOw1XKfQfFoVhZbmir6Lm4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- jQuery · not on ietf.org 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ietf.org 8/20
- Atlassian · not on ietf.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ietf.org 6/20
- PHP · not on ietf.org 6/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Apple Business · not on ietf.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on ietf.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on ietf.org 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on ietf.org 5/20
- nginx · not on ietf.org 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on ietf.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on ietf.org 3/20