Most of us are familiar with IP Address. We know our Internet Service Provider provides us with a unique IP Address. But who provides these IP Addresses to the ISP? This is a question which isn't thought about most of the times. There exists an organisation known as IANA since 1988 which is responsible for a few things. One of them is providing IP Addresses to the ISP. After reading this post, you would be well-verse with: What is IANA? What are the responsibilities of IANA? How does IANA distribute and allocate IP Addresses? What is IANA? The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a department of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation 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. What are the responsibilities of IANA? IANA is responsible for coordinating some of the key el...
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