The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and
engineering development of the
Internet by the
Internet Society (ISOC). It oversees a number of Task Forces, of which the most important are the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).The body which eventually became the IAB was originally formed by the
United States Department of Defense's
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under the name Internet Configuration Control Board in
1979; it eventually became the Internet Advisory Board in September,
1984, and then the Internet Activities Board in May,
1986 (the name was changed, while keeping the same acronym). It finally became the Internet Architecture Board, under ISOC, in January,
1992, as part of the Internet's transition from a U.S.-government entity to an international, public entity.
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