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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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| Abbreviation | IANA |
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| Founded | December 1988 |
| Founder | U.S. Department of Commerce |
| Focus | Manage DNS zones |
| Headquarters | 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536, USA |
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| Owner | ICANN |
Key people | Kim Davies |
| Website | www |
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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address (e.g.IPV4, IPV6 but MAC Address) allocation so everyone has a unique identity (e.g. Registrar and Registrant) and will not be replicated, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.[1][2]
Currently it is a function of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation established in 1998 primarily for this purpose under a United States Department of Commerce contract.[3] ICANN managed IANA directly from 1998 through 2016, when it was transferred to Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), an affiliate of ICANN that operates IANA today. Before it, IANA was administered principally by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC) situated at Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), under a contract USC/ISI had with the United States Department of Defense.
In addition, five regional Internet registries delegate number resources to their customers, local Internet registries, Internet service providers, and end-user organizations. A local Internet registry is an organization that assigns parts of its allocation from a regional Internet registry to other customers. Most local Internet registries are also Internet service providers.
- ^ "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority". Public Technical Identifiers. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ B. Carpenter; F. Baker; M. Roberts (June 2000). Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Network Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC2860. RFC 2860. Informational.
- ^ Elise Gerich (2016-10-25). "IANA Services Update". RIPE 73 Archives. Madrid, Spain: RIPE. Archived from the original on 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
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