[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Milton Mueller]

Name/number translation begins in computer networks before Arpanet.
Electronic telephonre switching does all kinds of mapping before that.
Toll-free telephone numbers are actually "names" that are mapped to
"real" telephone numbers. 
One could probably find mapping of names to addresses long before that.
Do you want to confine your example to the Internet or not? TCP/IP
(Internet protocol) wasn't specified officially until 1981. Hosts.txt
was doing the mapping at first, DNS starts around 1982. Read "Ruling the
Root" ;-) 

>>> "Jovan Kurbalija" <jovank at diplomacy.edu> 10/05/05 9:08 AM >>>
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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