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{{CompanyInfo|
| logo = Darpa.jpg
| type = Government
| industry =
| founded = 1958
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| headquarters = 3701 North Fairfax Drive<br/>Arlington, VA 22203-1714
| country = USA
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| website = [http://www.darpa.mil/default.aspx darpa.mil]
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| facebook =
| linkedin = [http://www.linkedin.com/company/16813?trk=tyah DARPA]
| twitter = DARPA_News
| keypeople = Dr. Regina Dugan, Director<br/>Dr. Kaigham (Ken) J. Gabriel, Deputy Director
}}
'''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>
== DARPA and ICANN ==
== DARPA and ICANN ==
[[ICANN]] has taken over the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]), which was originally established by DARPA. IANA was originally a research project by the Information Sciences Institute (“ISI”) at the USC School of Engineering, under a contract of the DARPA. It was set up to establish, implement. and look after the assignment policy and IP-allocation and to carry out similar functions for DNS, that is, assign technical parameter numbers and managing their assigned values, look after the 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 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>
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