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Joly,<br>
<br>
When in casual conversation with non-members I say ISOC, catch
myself, and say the Internet Society. So I'm OK with this. I'm sure
we'll continue to use ISOC in more casual conversation. <br>
<br>
By the way, the longest and shortest of these organization names are
presented as follows:<br>
<br>
<span class="wcm-region" id="main_content" style="display: inline">Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)<br>
</span>Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)<br>
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)<br>
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)<br>
Internet Society<br>
<br>
As IEEE did not present its name in the original email, I looked it
up. It's the worlds largest professional organization with 400,000
members, and it took 5 click on their website to locate the actual
name: <span class="wcm-region" id="main_content" style="display:
inline">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</span>.
They truly are committed to their acronym. <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Tom Lowenhaupt<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/29/2012 11:24 AM, Joly MacFie
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAM9VJk1Y74RjarGjAX5gS7fOsC1j9+uUc9C6yijoyzEF=Xv=bw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><br>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">—
Five leading global organizations—IEEE, Internet Architecture
Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet
Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)</blockquote>
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<div>The Internet Society is notable in the above list in that it
is the only organization that does not have an acronym. </div>
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<div>Now, we all know that "Internet Society" has been the
preferred expression for the last few years, but how do Chapters
feel about the further deprecation of the ISOC identity?</div>
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