NENA's mission is to foster the technological advancement, availability, and implementation of a universal emergency telephone number system. In carrying out its mission, NENA promotes research, planning, training and education. The protection of human life, the preservation of property and the maintenance of general community security are among NENA's objectives. NENA's elected Executive Board, volunteer Chapter Presidents and Committee Chairpersons, and NENA Headquarters staff are easily reachable to help you. Click on one of the links below or at the left for names, titles, phone numbers, and email addresses.

LIF, a global industry initiative, was formed in September 2000 with the purpose of developing and promoting industry common solutions for Location Based Services (LBS). The recommendations of the LIF to the mobile community are both network protocol and positioning technology independent with the goal of addressing interoperability issues and accelerating time to market of location-based services. Membership is open to companies worldwide, including application and content providers, infrastructure vendors, device manufacturers and mobile operators. There are currently over 100 members, and LIF also works with partner organizations within the wireless industry such as the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) and 3GPP. Founding members include Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia.

ALACEL is the only entity gathering wireless operators, equipment/technology providers and consultants in this part of the continent. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Miami, Florida (USA), ALACEL's location provides easy communication access and transportation links with the entire region, with the added advantage of direct connections to US industry associations and business enterprises. ALACEL is the leading and most effective information exchange forum, sharing experiences and all kinds of externalities among cellular, satellite and PCS of Latin America and the Caribbean, and is comprised of the most important companies in the region, your company being one of the few exceptions. Furthermore, ALACEL is one of the leading and most effective promoters of information exchange with the intent of furthering the legitimate interests of our firms among our peers in other regions.

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, Industry Subject Matter Experts, Research Education Networks, with a clear mission to advocate IPv6 by dramatically improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world. To this end the IPv6 FORUM has established an open, international FORUM of IPv6 expertise, shared IPv6 knowledge and experience among members, promoted new IPv6-based applications and global solutions, promoted interoperable implementations of Ipv6 standards, co-operated to achieve end-to-end quality of service, resolved issues that create barriers to IPv6 deployment.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.). Much of the work is handled via mailing lists. The IETF holds meetings three times per year. The IETF working groups are grouped into areas, and managed by Area Directors, or ADs. The ADs are members of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Providing architectural oversight is the Internet Architecture Board, (IAB). The IAB also adjudicates appeals when someone complains that the IESG has failed. The IAB and IESG are chartered by the Internet Society (ISOC) for these purposes.