Internet Architecture Board

The INternet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committe which is responisble for providing advisory support for and charged with oversight of the Standardised activities of the INtenet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IAB was showing increasing interest in the long-term architectural future of the internet, so they set out to oversee the standardised processes to establish the protocol parameter values of the internet as they are known today. It is also in charge of the editorial management and publication of the Request for Comments (RFC) document series.
The body which eventually became the IAB was created originally by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the name Internet Configuration Control Board during 1979; it eventually became the Internet Advisory Board during September, 1984, and then the Internet Activities Board during May, 1986 (the name was changed, while keeping the same acronym). It finally became the Internet Architecture Board, under ISOC, during January, 1992, as part of the Internet's transition from a U.S.-government entity to an international, public entity.