History
ISC was originally founded in 1994 as Internet Software Consortium, Inc., to continue the work of maintaining and enhancing BIND following the footsteps of CSRG at U.C.Berkeley, Digital Equipment Corp., and Vixie Enterprises. Due to the importance of BIND as an essential component of the Internet's infrastructure, founders of ISC felt very strongly that BIND's continued support and enhancement should be managed and funded by an independent entity. IANA (Jon Postel) designated ISC as a root name server operator - initially as NS.ISC.ORG, later changed to F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET - to enable ISC to support the use of BIND by root name servers.
In January 2004 the original ISC's projects, assets and staff were transferred to Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., the current ISC.
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