[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Jovan Kurbalija]

Thank you Stephan. The pointer to RFC 229 is useful. We would like to show
the moment when names started being translated in numbers. Did name/number
translation exist from the very beginning of the Arpanet? 

LOL for the early examples of XXX! Jovan

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at internatif.org] 
Sent: 05 October 2005 15:02
To: Jovan Kurbalija
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:35:03PM +0200,
 Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> - When did the mapping of numbers to names first begin? 

I cannot be positive, I'm not old enough, but RFC 229, in september
1971, contained a list of host names for the Arpanet. "SEX" was in it,
thirty years before ".xxx" :-)

The RFC maps these names to the addresses of the time (it was before
IP, "addresses" were 8-bits wide and, as far as I understand, were not
"real" addresses but rather site identifiers).

RFC 606, in december 1973, seems to be the first to suggest to put
that list online, at a standard place (the future HOSTS.TXT). You can
see that the DNS was far away in the future.




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