[ncdnhc-discuss] early history of .ORG

[Jefsey Morfin]

Dear Dave,
On 21:15 28/12/01, Dave Crocker said:
>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.

As explained several times, "com" was first introduced end of 1979 in the 
Philips network. This was the root to the Tymnet public network (gateway in 
Eindhoven) beause the software was named  Tymcom/Tymcom. "net" was planned 
simultaneously for the Telenet Gateway on IPSS (International British 
Telecom service) in London - which became operational later on. "com" and 
"net" were consistently used from then on for each public or private 
interconnect by Tymnet (i.e. 100% of the international public data services 
interconnections).

They become buzwords of the time used by public and private operators and 
users all over the world what ever the technology (X25/X.75/T2 links to 
Tymnet were refered as "com" connexions, to Telenet as "net", to Transpac 
as "tpc", to British gateway as "uk" and public net as "pss", Canada as 
"tlg": this replaced the DNICs and ISO 3166 3 letter codes in current jargon).

I see no reason why ARPA/Internet would have failed to that habit. As I 
reported many times, the only Internet oddities were the strange disk 
inconsistant reverse order and the use of Pouzin's zoned addresses.

I would be glad to investigate history more in detail. Would you have the 
mail of Jake Feinler?
Jefsey