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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

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than IETFNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to IETF match.

  1. 01
    w3.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  2. 02
    RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English No trackers

    RFC Editor

    The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.

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  3. 03
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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  4. 04

    Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)

    Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification

    Compare Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group with IETF →
  5. 05
    Microformats microformats.org English No trackers

    Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

    project to standardise HTML class-name based formats

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  6. 06
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  7. 07
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

    Compare DOI.org query endpoint with IETF →
  8. 08
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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  9. 09
    NTPsec ntpsec.org English No trackers

    Welcome to NTPsec

    implementation of Network Time Protocol

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  10. 10
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Let's Encrypt

    Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.

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  11. 11
    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

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  12. 12
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Compare Codeberg e.V. with IETF →
  13. 13
    ercim.eu English No trackers

    Home

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  14. 14
    iwanet.org English No trackers

    International Web Association (IWA)

    Founded in 1996, IWA is the industry’s recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals.

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  15. 15
    SPEC spec.org Top 10K English No trackers

    SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

    American non-profit corporation

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  16. 16
    Python python.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

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  17. 17
    United States Patent and Trademark Office uspto.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    United States Patent and Trademark Office

    Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's main web site.

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  18. 18
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

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  19. 19
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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  20. 20
    I2P geti2p.net English No trackers

    I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN

    I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.

    Compare I2P with IETF →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
41 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.

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