Who allots Public IP Addresses

Who allots public IP Addresses? IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is responsible for Allotment of Public IP Addresses. Allotment of Public TCP and UDP ports Allotment of Domain Names   By the way, Jon Postel was incharge for iana until 1998. He was the RFC editor also. When the Internet grew large, a new orgianization was formed for the purpose of management of ip address space. It is ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names). Here, the confusion is, IANA was NOT abolished. It still works but under the control of ICANN. If the questions is like this: Who assigns public ip addresses? A) IEEE B) IETF C) ICANN D) Stanford University. The answer is ICANN.   *************************************** If the question is like this: Who assigns public ip addresses? A) IEEE B) IETF C) IANA D) Stanford University. Then select IANA ********************************************** If the question is like this: Who assigns public ip addresses? A) IEEE B) IETF C) ICANN/IANA D) Stanford University. Then select ICANN/IANA   ***************************************** If you are willing to take the risk of confusing your brain further on the topic of iana-icann, and If you are ready to waste your limited time allotted for you in this beautiful earth, then please click here. I don't mind :)