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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

standards organization overseeing IP addresses

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Abbreviation: IANA
Founded: December 1988 ; 37 years ago ( 1988-12 )
Founder: U.S. Department of Commerce
Focus: Manage DNS zones
Headquarters: 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536, USA
Location s: Playa Vista, Los Angeles , United States
Owner: ICANN
Manager: Kim Davies
Website: www .iana .org

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.

Currently it is a function of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation established in 1998 primarily for this purpose under a United States Department of Commerce contract. ICANN managed IANA directly from 1998 through 2016, when it was transferred to Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), an affiliate of ICANN that operates IANA today. Before it, IANA was administered principally by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC) situated at Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), under a contract USC/ISI had with the United States Department of Defense.