Sites like IETF

01 · Entity

About IETF

IETF ietf.org

IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.

Wikidata: Open Internet standards organization

Top 1K · #493 English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Website of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an open volunteer standards body that develops Internet protocol standards (RFCs), with information on working groups, meetings, mailing list archives and the Datatracker document system.

Who it’s for

Network engineers, protocol developers, Internet technologists

Business model

Nonprofit funded by meeting fees and sponsors

• Internet standards organization
• RFC documents
• Internet protocol standards
• IETF meetings
• working groups
• Datatracker
• mailing list archive
• TCP/IP

02 · Embedding space

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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English

   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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2. 02
   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ieee.org Top 1K English

   American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering

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3. 03
   NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

   NLnet Labs - Home

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

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4. 04
   DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

   Home Page

   API endpoint

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5. 05
   ICANN icann.org Top 10K English

   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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6. 06
   w3.org Top 1K English

   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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7. 07
   National Institute of Standards and Technology nist.gov Top 1K English

   National Institute of Standards and Technology

   NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

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   0 say National Institute of Standards and Technology is a good alternative to IETF 0 say National Institute of Standards and Technology isn’t a real alternative to IETF

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8. 08
   ITU itu.int Top 10K English

   ITU: Connecting the world and beyond

   The United Nations agency for digital technologies

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9. 09
   Internet Systems Consortium isc.org Top 10K

   development and dissemination of internet software and tools

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10. 10
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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    0 say OSF is a good alternative to IETF 0 say OSF isn’t a real alternative to IETF

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11. 11
    International Organization for Standardization iso.org Top 1K English

    international standards development organization

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    0 say International Organization for Standardization is a good alternative to IETF 0 say International Organization for Standardization isn’t a real alternative to IETF

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12. 12
    Electronic Frontier Foundation eff.org Top 10K

    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc

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13. 13
    United States Patent and Trademark Office uspto.gov Top 10K English

    United States Patent and Trademark Office

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

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14. 14
    Sitemaps sitemaps.org Top 10K

    sitemaps.org - Home

    The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.

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    0 say Sitemaps is a good alternative to IETF 0 say Sitemaps isn’t a real alternative to IETF

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15. 15
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English

    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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16. 16
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

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17. 17
    SPEC spec.org Top 10K English

    SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

    American non-profit corporation

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18. 18
    International Labour Organization ilo.org Top 10K English

    ILO Homepage | International Labour Organization

    The official website of the International Labour Organization (ILO), dedicated to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.

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19. 19
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

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    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority iana.org Top 10K

    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

    standards organization overseeing IP addresses

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    0 say Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is a good alternative to IETF 0 say Internet Assigned Numbers Authority isn’t a real alternative to IETF

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ietf.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones IETF uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What IETF is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.