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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Founder | |
| Type | Network Engineering |
| Focus | DNS, BIND, DHCP, Kea, Internet |
| Location | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jeff Osborn (President) |
Employees | 35 |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Internet Software Consortium |
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations.[1][2] 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.[3][4]
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 the 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.[5]
ISC is primarily funded by the sale of technical support contracts for its open source software.[6]
- ^ "The History of ISC". Internet Systems Consortium. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ Internal Revenue Service (2007-12-15). "501(c)(3) exemption letter". Internet Systems Consortium. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-18. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "F-Root". Internet Systems Consortium. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ "Milestone Agreement Reached Between ICANN, and F Root Server Operator, Internet Systems Consortium". ICANN. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ "IETF Standards Written by ISC Contributors". Internet Systems Consortium. ISC. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
- ^ "2019 ISC Annual Report" (PDF). ISC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
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