Alternatives and competitors
Sites like IETF
The 20 closest Internet standards organization alternatives to IETF, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to IETF? The closest matches are RFC Editor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and NLnet Labs. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 6 ms
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
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
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.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to IETF
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to IETF, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
RFC Editor
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Very close cos 0.943 - 02
American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering
Very close cos 0.901 - 03
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close cos 0.895 - 04
Home Page
API endpoint
Close cos 0.894 - 05
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close cos 0.895 - 06
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.
Close cos 0.891 - 07
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.
Close cos 0.887 - 08
ITU: Connecting the world and beyond
The United Nations agency for digital technologies
Close cos 0.886 - 09
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.885 - 10
international standards development organization
Close cos 0.882 - 11
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's main web site.
Close cos 0.882 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 13
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Close cos 0.881 - 14
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
American non-profit corporation
Close cos 0.877 - 15
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.
Close cos 0.879 - 16
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 …
Close cos 0.877 - 17
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.880 - 18
international organisation
Close cos 0.877 - 19
Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
Close cos 0.878 - 20
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Close cos 0.877
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.
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa6a5a4303be-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:166.84.6.31 ip4:166.84.7.238 ip6:2602:f977:800:f7f6::/64 i…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ken.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=NQpGlv9isd8O_RHzO31C0lOw1XKfQfFoVhZbmir6Lm4
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what IETF adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ietf.org 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Atlassian · not on ietf.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Apple Business · not on ietf.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on ietf.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on ietf.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ietf.org 4/20
- Adobe · not on ietf.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ietf.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on ietf.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on ietf.org 3/20
- Drupal · not on ietf.org 3/20
- PHP · not on ietf.org 3/20