[ncdnhc-discuss] early history of .ORG

[Dave Crocker]

At 12:33 PM 12/28/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Incidentally, another interesting fact about the
>early history of .org is that Postel first proposed
>to call it .PUB

Milton, in Marina del Rey, you stated that the domain name service has 
existed for 30 years.  In fact it has been in operation less than 15.

It is always interesting to hear you try to recite Internet history.  (It 
is also interesting to see your disdain at being corrected, given that one 
would expect a professor to have at least a modicum of concern for accuracy.)

The choice of the com/net/org domain names came after lengthy community 
discussion that basically failed to reach consensus about the particular 
choices.  Finally, Jake Feinler who then headed the Arpanet/Internet 
Network Information Center (at SRI International) decided on the 3 names.

d/


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