# Kea Administrator Reference Manual

This is the reference guide for Kea version &keaversion;.
2010-2018
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")

Kea is an open source implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers, developed and maintained by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).

This is the reference guide for Kea version &keaversion;. Links to the most up-to-date version of this document (in PDF, HTML, and plain text formats), along with other documents for Kea, can be found in ISC's `Knowledgebase`.

## Acknowledgments

Kea is an open source project designed, developed, and maintained by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. ISC is primarily funded by revenues from support subscriptions for our open source, and we encourage all professional users to consider this option. To learn more, see ​https://www.isc.org/support/.

If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at ​https://www.isc.org/donate/.

We thank all the organizations and individuals who have helped to make Kea possible. Comcast and the Comcast Innovation Fund provided major support for the development of Kea's DHCPv4, DHCPv6, and DDNS modules. Mozilla funded initial work on the REST API via a MOSS award.

Kea was initially implemented as a collection of applications within the BIND 10 framework. We thank the founding sponsors of the BIND 10 project: Afilias, IIS.SE, Nominet, SIDN, JPRS, CIRA; and additional sponsors AFNIC, CNNIC, CZ.NIC, DENIC eG, Google, RIPE NCC, Registro.br, .nz Registry Services, and Technical Center of Internet .