ICANN Historical Timeline

1972:- DARPA era - birth of the Internet edit

ARPANET edit

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

1983 - edit

1988 - IANA (legitimization era) edit

1992 - Internet goes commercial/ gains a public/ officially becomes marketplace edit

1994 - RFC 1591 edit

1996 Internet Governance blueprint era: International Ad-Hoc Committee formed edit

1997 - MoU 1998 - green/white papers

1998 Birth of ICANN (scaffolding) edit

1999-2002: (infant) ICANN edit

Privatization Marilyn Cade DNSO exists PSO, ASO are reserved

2002 ICANN Reform (toddler) edit

2003 2004

2005-2006 (youth) fulfillment of Differentiation/Expansion of ICANN bodies edit

2007 - 2009 (youth) Infinite reviewing cycles begin edit

(IDNs?)

2009-2012 (tween) defining accountability and transparency at ICANN edit

2012-___ “Scale the Root” (adolescent) Big 2012 round edit

2014-2017-ish IANA Transition - (young adult) edit

2017 - present Universality - (adult) IANA Transition “complete” to present day edit

[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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