IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

Originally managed a group of functions per-

formed by the Information Sciences Institute under contract with the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency on the ARPANET.Those functions included the assignment of parameters for Internet protocols, management of the Internet Protocol (IP) address space, assignment of domain names, and management of root server functions. Internet protocol parameters managed by IANA include the assignment of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ports, which are logical points of connection. In fact, IANA initially was the responsibility of Jon Postel, who performed those functions until his death in 1998. At that time, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an independent not-for-profit organization, assumed the responsibility for managing IANA. See also ARPANET; ICANN; Internet; IP; logical; port; Postel, Jon; protocol; root server; and TCP.

• fax emulation
• fax (facsimile)
• fax-on-demand (FOD)
• fax-on-demand (FOD)
• Fax over Internet Protocol (FoIP)
• Fax over Internet Protocol (FoIP)
• fax relay
• fax spoofing
• FCC
• FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
• FC (Fibre Channel)
• FC/IP (Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol)
• FCS (Frame Check Sequence)
• FDD (Frequency Division Duplex)
• FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
• FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access)
• FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing)
• FDX (Full DupleX)
• FDX (Full DupleX)
• FDX (Full DupleX)
• Feature Group (FG)
• FEC
• FECN (Forward Explicit Congestion Notification)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)