| (I) The non-profit, private corporation that has assumed
responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol
parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root
server system management functions formerly performed under U.S.
Government contract by IANA and other entities.
(C) The Internet Protocol Suite, as defined by the IETF and the
IESG, contains numerous parameters, such as internet addresses,
domain names, autonomous system numbers, protocol numbers, port
numbers, management information base object identifiers, including
private enterprise numbers, and many others. The Internet
community requires that the values used in these parameter fields
be assigned uniquely. ICANN makes those assignments as requested
and maintains a registry of the current values.
(C) ICANN was formed in October 1998, by a coalition of the
Internet's business, technical, and academic communities. The U.S.
Government designated ICANN to serve as the global consensus
entity with responsibility for coordinating four key functions for
the Internet: the allocation of IP address space, the assignment
of protocol parameters, the management of the DNS, and the
management of the DNS root server system.
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