Assignment Authority History

• initially an ad-hoc function

  adjunct to RFC Editor
  

• performed initially by Jon Postel then by the IANA

  1969 - 1973 - UCLA
  
  1973 - 1974 - Mitre Corporation & Keydata
  1974 - 1977 - SRI International
  1977 - 1998 - USC / ISI

• under ARPA (DARPA) funding

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

  name established in 1989
  

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