Internet Systems Consortium
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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, INN, Network Time Protocol, OpenReg. The ISC is also known for a software license, the so-called ISC license, which is functionally similar to the MIT license; this license is also the license preferred for new code contributed to OpenBSD.
The ISC hosts one of the 13 root nameservers (F) and an archive of Usenet newgroup messages and rmgroup messages, as well as many other free software projects.
The ISC also hosts the Internet Domain Survey. This survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. It is sponsored by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. with technical operations subcontracted to Network Wizards.
