[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:04:26PM +0200,
 Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote 
 a message of 13 lines which said:

> 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.

Yes, but they were not always official names and were different
according to the users. Years 1970 and 1971 are full of RFCs claiming
to be *the* authoritative list of Arpanet hosts, with their
corresponding addresses, even while there was no resolution system,
not even HOSTS.TXT.

RFC 229 was, I believe, the first attempt at *standardizing* these
names.

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