[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

Wed Oct 5 10:16:34 EDT 2005

Vittorio, It sounds like common sense solution. Since computer engineers are
rational and practical people they must have invented "names" very early in
the net development. Stephane's references to RFC from 1971 are the closest
so far. I am sure that we will get some input from "Internet fathers" who
gravitate to this list. JK

-----Original Message-----
From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu.org] 
Sent: 05 October 2005 16:04
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Cc: Jovan Kurbalija; WSIS Internet Governance Caucus
Subject: Re: [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

Il giorno mer, 05-10-2005 alle 15:21 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer ha
scritto:
> So, it was somewhere between february 1970 and september 1971.

In any case, the use of identifying computers with strings (or,
vulgarly, "give them names", at least such as "the XYZ University
mainframe") was born with computing itself. Even before a formalized
conversion system between numbers and names was established, I can only
imagine that engineers using the network would already mentally identify
computers with names and remember the corresponding number by heart.
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vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
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