[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:16:34PM +0200,
 Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu> wrote 
 a message of 30 lines which said:

> Since computer engineers are rational and practical people they must
> have invented "names" very early in the net development.

There is more than the invention of "names". There is an evolution
similar to the one of people's names: first, informal names, given by
your neighbors and friends, not standardized, specially in writing,
then an official list, with a freeze of the names, then a resolution
system (HOSTS.TXT, the DNS or a people directory)...

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