Which of the following is a non-profit organization that oversees the allocation of IP addresses, management of the DNS infrastructure, protocol parameter assignment, and root server system…

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• AANSI
• BIEEE
• CITU
• DICANN

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  3% (1)
• D
  93% (28)

Explanation

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the non-profit body responsible for coordinating the global internet's naming and addressing systems - including IP address allocation, DNS management, protocol parameter assignment, and root server oversight. ANSI (A) is the American National Standards Institute, which develops industrial and technical standards across many fields but has no internet governance role. IEEE (B) is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which defines networking standards like Ethernet and Wi-Fi but does not manage IP addresses or DNS. ITU (C) is the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency focused on global telecom standards and spectrum regulation, not internet address coordination.

Memory tip: Think of ICANN as the "Internet's Coordinator of Addresses, Names, and Numbers" - the acronym nearly spells itself out, and it's the only one of these four that specifically governs the internet's core infrastructure.

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