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Acronym: IETF
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Internet Engineering Task Force
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, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems. IANA also maintains a close liaison with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and RFC Editorial team in fulfilling this function. In the case of the two major Internet namespaces, namely IP addresses and domain names, extra administrative policy and delegation t |
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Acronym: ICANN
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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Internet Architecture Board, and the agreement governing the work is published in RFC 2860. ==Oversight== IANA is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) under contract to the United States Department of Commerce (DOC). The Department of Commerce also provides an ongoing oversight function, whereby it verifies additions and changes made in the roo |
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Acronym: DARPA
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Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
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blished informally as a reference to various technical functions for the ARPANET, that the Information Sciences Institute performed for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. The earliest reference to a registry function is probably RFC 322, published on March 26, 1972, in which Vint Cerf and Jon Postel establishe |
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