ICANN Historical Timeline

1972:- DARPA era - birth of the Internet[edit | edit source]

ARPANET[edit | edit source]

NLS System at Stanford, 1968^[1]
The "Mother of All Demos," 1968^[2]
Concept drawing of ARPANET, 1969^[3]
Interface Message Processor, 1969^[4]

The ARPANET was a product of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The University of Southern California was contracted by DARPA to provide the original "IANA Functions," which at the time were able to be maintained on index cards.

1976 -[edit | edit source]

1983 -[edit | edit source]

1988 - IANA (legitimization era)[edit | edit source]

1992 - Internet goes commercial/ gains a public/ officially becomes marketplace[edit | edit source]

1994 - RFC 1591[edit | edit source]

1996 Internet Governance blueprint era: International Ad-Hoc Committee formed[edit | edit source]

1997 - MoU 1998 - green/white papers

1998 Birth of ICANN (scaffolding)[edit | edit source]

1999-2002: (infant) ICANN[edit | edit source]

Privatization Marilyn Cade DNSO exists PSO, ASO are reserved

2002 ICANN Reform (toddler)[edit | edit source]

2003 2004

2005-2006 (youth) fulfillment of Differentiation/Expansion of ICANN bodies[edit | edit source]

2007 - 2009 (youth) Infinite reviewing cycles begin[edit | edit source]

(IDNs?)

2009-2012 (tween) defining accountability and transparency at ICANN[edit | edit source]

2012-___ “Scale the Root” (adolescent) Big 2012 round[edit | edit source]

2014-2017-ish IANA Transition - (young adult)[edit | edit source]

2017 - present Universality - (adult) IANA Transition “complete” to present day[edit | edit source]

[1] DARPA.mil - NLS

[2] DARPA.mil - the MOAD

[3] DARPA.mil - Paving the Way to the Modern Internet

[4] DARPA.mil - The ARPANET

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