During the late 1980s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) delegated the .gov to the Federal Networking Council ([[FNC]]), a group chartered by the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to provide a forum for networking collaborations among Federal agencies to meet their research, education, and operational mission goals.<ref>[http://www.nitrd.gov/archive/fnc-material.html The Federal Networking Council]</ref> | During the late 1980s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) delegated the .gov to the Federal Networking Council ([[FNC]]), a group chartered by the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to provide a forum for networking collaborations among Federal agencies to meet their research, education, and operational mission goals.<ref>[http://www.nitrd.gov/archive/fnc-material.html The Federal Networking Council]</ref> |