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| − | | type = Non-Profit
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| − | | industry = Root Server Operator, Open Source Software
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| − | | founded = 1994
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| − | | founders = [[Paul Vixie]], [[Carl Malamud]], [[Rick Adams]]
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| − | | headquarters = 950 Charter Street<br/>Redwood City, CA 94063
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| − | | country = USA
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| − | | website = [http://www.isc.org/ isc.org]
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| − | | twitter = ISCdotORG
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| − | | keypeople = [[Jeff Osborn]], President<br>
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| − | [[Stephen Morris]], Director of QA<br>
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| − | [[Brian Reid]], Director of Operations<br/>
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| − | [[Twistan Marc Jones]], Director of Sales<br/>
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| − | [[Vicky Risk]], Director of Marketing<br/>
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| − | [[Ondrej Sury]], Director of DNS Engineering<br/>
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| − | [[Tomek Mrugalski]], Director of DHCP Development
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| − | '''The Internet Systems Consortium''', or, '''ISC''' is a non-profit which supports "the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet—and the autonomy of its participants by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations".<ref>[http://www.isc.org/about ISC About]</ref>
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| − | ISC is known for developing and maintaining the production quality [[BIND]] and [[DHCP]] Open Source software. ISC has expanded its focus to include enhancing the stability of the global [[DNS]] via reliable F-root name server operations. ISC is also involved with protocol development, such as facilitating the transition to [[IPv6]]. It if affiliated with [[OARC]] for [[DNS]]<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm ICANN]</ref>
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| − | ==History==
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| − | ISC began as the Internet Software Consortium Inc. in 1994; a decade later it changed its name to likely highlight its expansion beyond solely software based services.<ref>[http://www.isc.org/about/history ISC]</ref>. The founders of ISC believed that [[BIND]]'s integral part in enhancing and supporting the Internet needed to be fostered by an independent entity. [[IANA]] authorized ISC to be a root name server operator, which allowed ISC to support the use of BIND by root name servers.
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| − | ISC has become a home for additional software systems, like [[INN]] or [[Lynx]]; and they have also created their own, such as [[DHCP]] and [[OpenReg]].<ref>[http://www.isc.org/about/history ISC History]</ref>
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| − | ==Expansion==
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| − | Business has expanded beyond root name service; and ISC is now know for its Internet Hosting facilities for other open source projects, secondary name service for [[TLD]]s, and a DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Center ([[OARC]]).<ref>[http://www.isc.org/about/history ISC History]</ref>
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| − | ==Funding==
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| − | ISC was created through a grant, and it continues to survive on grants, Guild member fees, sponsors, and donations.<ref>[http://www.isc.org/about/history ISC History]</ref> They also provide paid support for their software, as well as training.<ref>Interview at San Francisco ICANN, 3/13/11</ref>
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| − | All of ISC's software is available for download from its website.
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| − | ==ICANN==
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| − | ISC was the first root server to enter into a Mutual Responsibilities Agreement with [[ICANN]]. While the world's dozen root servers have long played a vital role within the Internet community and [[ICANN]]'s work, there had not been a mutual agreement of this nature until January 4th, 2008.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm ICANN]</ref>
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