In January 2004 the projects, assets and staff of Internet Software Consortium were transferred to a new company, Internet Systems Consortium. The new company is a US Federal 501c(3) public-benefit, non-profit corporation. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → January 31, 2004 The United States defence budget is set to exceed US$400 billion next year—an almost 7% increase—according to budget proposals inadvertently posted on the Pentagons website. ... Internet Software Consortium (ISC) was an organization that was founded by Rick Adams and Paul Vixie with funding from UUNET to develop and support a number of reference implementations of Internet software. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is something other than the generation of profit. ...

Software developed at ISC includes BIND, DHCP, INN, Network Time Protocol, OpenReg. BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain, previously: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is the most commonly used DNS server on the Internet, especially on Unix-like systems, where it is a de facto standard. ... In the context of computer networking, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP, currently implemented as DHCPv6) is a client-server networking protocol. ... Inns are establishments where travellers can procure food, drink, and lodging. ... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronising the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. ...

The ISC hosts one of the 13 root nameservers (F) and an archive of usenet newsgroup and rmgroup messages, as well as many other free software projects. A root nameserver is a DNS server that answers requests for the root namespace domain, and redirects requests for a particular top-level domain to that TLDs nameservers. ... A newsgroup is a repository, usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ... A rmgroup message is a Usenet control message which, according to RFC 1036, removes a newsgroup with the given name. Category: Computer network stubs ... It has been suggested that Libre software be merged into this article or section. ...

External links

• Internet Systems Consortium home page