| '''DARPA''' stands for '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency'''. It is the United States Department of Defense agency that is responsible for the production of new technologies for use by U.S defense forces. Its main objective is to fund and develop advanced technologies for military purposes in order to maintain the technological superiority of the country.<ref>[http://www.darpa.mil/About.aspx darpa.mil] About DARPA</ref> | | '''DARPA''' stands for '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency'''. It is the United States Department of Defense agency that is responsible for the production of new technologies for use by U.S defense forces. Its main objective is to fund and develop advanced technologies for military purposes in order to maintain the technological superiority of the country.<ref>[http://www.darpa.mil/About.aspx darpa.mil] About DARPA</ref> |
− | [[ICANN]] has taken over the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]), which was originally a research project handled by the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the USC School of Engineering, under a contract awarded by DARPA. IANA was set up to establish, implement and look after [[IP]] allocation and related policies, as well as run the DNS, which included assigning technical parameter numbers, managing the assigned values, and supervising the operations of 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 a research project handled by the [[University of Southern California – Information Sciences Institute]], under a contract awarded by DARPA. IANA was set up to establish, implement and look after [[IP]] allocation and related policies, as well as run the [[DNS]], which included assigning technical parameter numbers, managing the assigned values, and supervising the operations of DNS root server system. <ref>[http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/icann.html linuxmafia.com]</ref> |