ICANN Historical Timeline

1968-1976: DARPA Era - The Birth of the Internet

ARPANET

NLS System at Stanford, 1968^[1]
The "Mother of All Demos," 1968^[2]
Concept drawing of ARPANET, 1969^[3]
Interface Message Processor, 1969^[4]
Queen Elizabeth II sends an email, 1976^[5]

The ARPANET was a product of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. MIT, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and the Stanford Research Institute, under contract with DARPA, were all instrumental in the development of technologies that are still used today in the modern Internet.^[6]

1976 -

1983 -

1986 - NSF launches NSFNet

1988 - IANA (legitimization era)

1992 - Internet goes commercial/ gains a public/ officially becomes marketplace

1994 - RFC 1591

1996 Internet Governance blueprint era: International Ad-Hoc Committee formed

1997 - MoU 1998 - green/white papers

1998 Birth of ICANN (scaffolding)

1999-2002: (infant) ICANN

Privatization Marilyn Cade DNSO exists PSO, ASO are reserved

2002 ICANN Reform (toddler)

2003 2004

2005-2006 (youth) fulfillment of Differentiation/Expansion of ICANN bodies

2007 - 2009 (youth) Infinite reviewing cycles begin

(IDNs?)

2009-2012 (tween) defining accountability and transparency at ICANN

2012-___ “Scale the Root” (adolescent) Big 2012 round

2014-2017-ish IANA Transition - (young adult)

2017 - present Universality - (adult) IANA Transition “complete” to present day

References

[1] DARPA.mil - NLS

[2] DARPA.mil - the MOAD

[3] DARPA.mil - Paving the Way to the Modern Internet

[4] DARPA.mil - The ARPANET

[5] Malvern Radar and Technology History Society - HM Queen Elizabeth II sends Email

[6] LiveScience.com - ARPANET to the World Wide Web, published June 2017

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