Editing InterNIC (section)

==Transfer to ARIN and ICANN==
The InterNIC project included Internet [[IP_address|IP number assignment]], [[Autonomous_system_(Internet)|ASN assignment]], and reverse [[DNS_zone|DNS zone (in-addr.arpa) management]] tasks until December 1997 when the [[ARIN|American Registry for Internet Numbers]] (ARIN) came into operation. At that time, responsibility for these tasks was transferred by the [[National Science Foundation]] from the InterNIC project to ARIN via modification of the cooperative agreement with Network Solutions.<ref>{{cite web |title= Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218742 Amendment No. 07 |author=NSF |date= 3 December 1997 |url=http://archive.icann.org/en/nsi/coopagmt-amend7-03dec97.htm}}</ref>

The InterNIC Directory and Database services provided by AT&T were discontinued on March 31, 1998, after their cooperative agreement with NSF expired.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg02781.html|title=E-mail from Chuck Gomes of the InterNIC announcing that AT&T would discontinue its Directory and Database Services on March 31, 1998|date=December 1997|publisher=IETF Mail Archive}}</ref>

In 1998, both IANA and InterNIC project were reorganized under the control of the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]] (ICANN), a [[California]] [[non-profit corporation]] contracted by the [[US Department of Commerce]] to manage a number of Internet-related tasks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/internic.htm|title=Domain Names: Management of Internet Names and Addresses|publisher=[[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]], [[U.S. Department of Commerce]]}}</ref> The role of operating the DNS was privatized, and opened up to competition, while the central management of name allocations would be awarded on a contract tender basis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accreditation-history.htm|title=Registrar Accreditation: History of the Shared Registry System|publisher=[[ICANN]]}}</ref>  In July 2010, the [[Internet Architecture Board|IAB]] and [[Number Resource Organization]] agreed that [[ICANN]] should perform the in-addr.arpa zone technical management tasks,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/docs2010/transition-of-in-addr-arpa-generation/|title=Transition of IN-ADDR.ARPA generation|publisher=Internet Architecture Board|access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref> and this transition to ICANN was completed in February 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110216.html|title=IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Completed|publisher=American Registry For Internet Numbers|access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>