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Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority
An organization operated under the auspices of the Internet
Society (ISOC) as a part of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). IANA
delegates authority for IP address-space allocation and domain-name assignment
to the NIC and other organizations. IANA also maintains a database of assigned
protocol identifiers used in the TCP/IP stack, including autonomous system
numbers. See also IAB, ISOC, and NIC.
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