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International Transport Workers' Federation

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions, founded in London in 1896 and representing over 4.5 million workers in 153 countries.

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an international court in Hamburg, Germany, with 21 judges that decides disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

International Trucks

International Trucks is the commercial truck brand of International Motors, an American manufacturer of Class 4 through 8 trucks, diesel engines, and IC Bus school and commercial buses owned by TRATON.

International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association

The International Tunnels and Underground Space (ITA-AITES), also known as ITA, is a non-profit association founded in 1974 by nineteen nations to promote the tunnel profession globally.

International Union of Architects

The International Union of Architects (UIA, Union Internationale des Architectes) is a federation of national architects' organizations founded in Lausanne in 1948, headquartered in Paris.

International Union of Private Railways

The International Union of Private Railways (UIP), founded in 1950, is a Brussels-based association representing private freight wagon keepers whose members own over 255,000 wagons.

International Union of Railways

The International Union of Railways (UIC), from the French Union Internationale des Chemins de fer, is a worldwide association of railway operators founded in Paris in 1922.

International Water Association

The International Water Association is a global organization of water professionals, utilities, and researchers, formed in 1999 by merger, with over 10,000 members in more than 140 countries.

International Zinc Association

The International Zinc Association (IZA), founded in 1990, is a nonprofit trade association representing the global zinc industry from Durham, North Carolina, with programs in sustainability and market development.

Internationale Automobilausstellung

The Internationale Automobilausstellung (IAA) is a German motor show organized by the VDA. Founded in Berlin in 1897, it was held in Frankfurt from 1951 and split into separate passenger-car and commercial-vehicle events in 1991.

Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is a domain name containing non-ASCII characters, such as Arabic or Chinese, encoded via IDNA and Punycode so ordinary DNS infrastructure can carry it unchanged.

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks exchanging data via the Internet protocol suite, used by roughly two thirds of the world's population.

Internet access

Internet access, also called an internet connection, is the service layer linking homes, businesses, and mobile devices to the global internet via fiber, cable, DSL, fixed wireless, satellite, or cellular.

Internet and Mobile Association of India

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is a not-for-profit industry body representing India's digital services industry, from e-commerce to digital payments, founded in 2004.

Internet Architecture Board

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a thirteen-member technical oversight body providing long-range direction for the Internet, chartered as an IETF committee and Internet Society advisory body since 1992.

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) maintains the authoritative public registries for Internet identifiers, including domain names, IP addresses, and protocol parameters, a role dating to the 1970s.

Internet backbone

The Internet backbone is the set of high-capacity, long-distance networks carrying traffic between smaller regional and local networks; the first national backbone, NSFNET, was set up in 1985.

Internet bot

An Internet bot, also called a web robot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet, from search crawlers to malicious spam bots.

Internet café

Internet café (cybercafé, net café, 网吧): a business where customers pay per minute or hour to use shared internet-connected computers, often with food, printing and gaming. First venue Cyberia, London, September 1994; peaked in 2000s China with 200,000+ licensed cafés, then declined with smartphones.

Internet censorship in India

Internet censorship in India is the government's blocking of websites and suspension of internet service under the Information Technology Act, 2000, with more shutdowns than any other democracy.

Internet Control Message Protocol

The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol of the Internet protocol suite that hosts and routers use to report errors and diagnostics.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a California nonprofit formed in 1998 that coordinates the Internet's unique identifiers, including domain names, IP addresses, and protocol parameters.

Internet Engineering Steering Group

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), made up of the IETF Chair and Area Directors, gives final approval of specifications as Internet Standards and charters the IETF's working groups.

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open, volunteer-based standards body that develops internet protocols like TLS 1.3 and QUIC through working groups, deciding by rough consensus rather than voting.

Internet exchange point

An Internet exchange point (IXP) is a shared network facility where more than two independent Autonomous Systems exchange Internet traffic directly, reducing transit costs, latency, and reliance on upstream providers.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (IE), also known as Microsoft Internet Explorer, was Microsoft's web browser bundled with Windows, at its peak holding over 95% desktop share in 2002 before its 2022 retirement.

Internet Explorer 11

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is the last major version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, released in 2013 and retired as a desktop application on June 15, 2022.

Internet filter

An Internet filter, also known as content-control software or censorware, blocks access to specific websites or content, used by schools for safety and by governments for censorship.

Internet forum

An Internet forum, also called a message board or discussion board, is a website where participants hold asynchronous, threaded conversations organized around topics, descended from BBSes and Usenet.

Internet Governance Forum

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a United Nations forum for annual multistakeholder dialogue on Internet policy, created by the 2005 Tunis Agenda and made permanent in 2025.