Editing Internet Architecture Board (section)

== History ==
The body which eventually became the IAB was originally the '''Internet Configuration Control Board''' (ICCB). It was created by [[Vint Cerf]] in 1979 while he was working at the [[DARPA|Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA) of the [[United States Department of Defense]]. In 1983, the ICCB was reorganized by Barry Leiner, Cerf's successor at DARPA, around a series of task forces considering different technical aspects of internetting. The re-organized group was named the '''Internet Activities Board''' (IAB).<ref>{{cite web |title=Status memo |url=https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1160.txt |access-date=2020-06-26 |website=www.ietf.org}}</ref><ref name="Moschovitisp104">{{Cite book |last=Moschovitis |first=Christos J. P. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofinterne0000unse |title=History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present |date=1999 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-118-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofinterne0000unse/page/104/mode/2up 104]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1997 |title=Brief History of the Internet |url=https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ISOC-History-of-the-Internet_1997.pdf |publisher=Internet Society |pages=13–14}}</ref>

The IAB set for itself seven principal foci for the period of 1989 to 1990. These were namely:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=G. Cerf |first1=Vinton |date=May 1990 |title=RFC 1160 - Internet Activities Board |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1160 |publisher=IETF |access-date=23 April 2021 |website=tools.ietf.org/}}</ref>

*Operational Stability
*User Services
*OSI Coexistence
*Testbed Facilities
*Security
*Getting Big
*Getting Fast

It finally became the ''Internet Architecture Board'', under [[Internet Society|ISOC]], in January 1992, as part of the Internet's transition from a U.S.-government entity to an international, public entity.