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== DARPA and ICANN ==

== DARPA and ICANN ==

[[ICANN]] has taken over the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]), which was originally established by DARPA. IANA was originally a research project by the Information Sciences Institute (“ISI”) at the USC School of Engineering, under a contract of the DARPA. It was set up to establish, implement. and look after the assignment policy and IP-allocation and to carry out similar functions for DNS, that is, assign technical parameter numbers and managing their assigned values, look after the DNS root server system. <ref>[http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/icann.html linuxmafia.com]</ref>

[[ICANN]] has taken over the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]), which was originally established by DARPA. IANA was originally a research project handled by the Information Sciences Institute ("ISI") at the USC School of Engineering, under a contract awarded by DARPA. It was set up to establish, implement and look after the IP-allocation and its assignment policy.Similarly for DNS it carries out functions such as assigning technical parameter numbers and managing the assigned values and supervise the operations of DNS root server system. <ref>[http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/icann.html linuxmafia.com]</ref>

== References ==

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