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Internet Software Consortium (ISC) was an organization that was founded by Rick Adams and Paul Vixie with funding from UUNET to develop and support a number of reference implementations of Internet software. ISC's main office is in Redwood City, California. In January 2004 the projects, assets and staff of Internet Software Consortium were transferred to a new company, Internet Systems Consortium. The new company is a US Federal 501c(3) public-benefit, non-profit corporation. Software developed at ISC includes BIND, DHCP and INN.
Internet Domain Survey The ISC also publishes the results of the Internet Domain Survey which counts the number of hosts on the Internet. This survey has been performed since the time when there were only a few hundred hosts linked to the Internet. The earliest published reports are dated in 1993 and were preformed by Mark Lottor of Network Wizards (nw.com). The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. It is now sponsored by the Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. with technical operations subcontracted to Network Wizards. The Internet host count has grown from 4,852,000 in January 1995 to being 439,286,364 which is noted in the latest survey executed in July 2006. | ||||||||
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