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: ORGANIZATIONS--Commercial--Consortia
- ACC: Alliance for Competitive Communications (formerly MFJ Task force) an ad-hoc coalition of the seven regional Bell operating companies (http://bell.com)
- CIX: Commercial Internet Exchange (http://www.cix.org)
- IDA: Internet Developers Association, a trade association for individuals involved in the development of content for the Internet (http://www.association.org)
- IFIP: International Federation for Information Processing, a multinational federation of professional and technical organizations (or national groupings of such organizations) concerned with information processing (http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html)
- IIA: Information Industry Association, 500 member companies in the generation, processing, distribution and use of information: mail iia.ipo@his.com
- NIIP: National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (http://www.niiip.org)
- NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed (http://www.niit.org/niit/)
- NIPDE: National Initiative for Product Data Exchange (http://www.eeel.nist.gov/nipde/)
- NOMA: National Online Media Association: mail natbbs-request@echonyc.com
- SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
- WIA: World Internetworking Alliance (WIA), coalition of parties working together to help effect a truly international, independent, autonomous Internet institutional environment where diverse bodies - corporate, non-profit, and governmental - cooperate but retain their own identity and independence, working together toward achieving a robust, open, competitive marketplace at all levels (http://www.wia.org)
- Wireless: The Wireless Opportunities Coalition, a group of organizations and companies seeking to expand wireless communications development, manufacturing, and use (http://wireless.policy.net/wireless/wireless.html)