Internet Systems Consortium
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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Type | Network Engineering |
| Focus | DNS, BIND, Internet, Kea |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jeff Osborn (President) |
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Employees
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20+ |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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Internet Software Consortium |
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, , and operations. ISC has developed several key Internet technologies that enable the global Internet, including: BIND, ISC DHCP and Kea. Other software projects no longer in active development include OpenReg, and ISC AFTR (an implementation of an IPv4/IPv6 transition protocol based on Dual-Stack Lite).
ISC operates one of the 13 global authoritative DNS root servers, F-root.
Over the years a number of additional software systems were operated under ISC (for example: INN and Lynx) to better support the Internet's infrastructure. ISC also expanded their operational activities to include Internet hosting facilities for other open-source projects such as NetBSD, XFree86, kernel.org, secondary name-service (SNS) for more than 50 top-level domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's DNS.
ISC is actively involved in community design process; it authors and participates in the development of the IETF standards, including the production of managed open-source software used as a reference implementation of the DNS.
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