Internet Systems Consortium

Internet Systems Consortium

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) public benefit non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations. ISC is the developer of several key Internet technologies that enable the global Internet; such as BIND, ISC DHCP, OpenReg, ISC AFTR, an implementation of an IPv4/IPv6 transition protocol based on Dual-Stack Lite, which is under development by several large ISPs within the IETF protocol standards development process.

ISC operates one of the 13 global authoritative DNS root servers, F-root. Over the years, a number of additional software systems were operated under ISC (INN, Lynx) to better support the Internet's infrastructure. ISC also expanded their operational activities to include Internet hosting facilities for other open source projects such as NetBSD, XFree86, kernel.org, secondary name service (SNS) for more than 50 top-level domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's DNS.

ISC is actively involved in community design process, author and participate in the creation of the IETF standards, including the production of managed open source software used as reference implementation of the DNS.