There are also many isolated internets, i.e., sets of interconnected networks, which are not connected to the Internet but use the Internet Standards.
Nobody really owns or controls the Internet.
Rather, participation in the Internet derives from voluntary participation in Internet Standards. Many Internet providers not only adhere to these standards, but make access to their networks available to the public. It is the voluntary interconnection and cooperation of these providers that forms the global Internet. The ISOC Trustees are responsible for approving appointments to the IAB from among the nominees submitted by the IETF nominating committee. It is chartered to provide oversight of the architecture of the Internet and its protocols, and to serve, in the context of the Internet standards process, as a body to which the decisions of the IESG may be appealed.