[ncdnhc-discuss] early history of .ORG

Milton Mueller mueller at syr.edu
Sun Dec 30 05:09:14 CET 2001


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

And your point? Doesn't change the fact
that Postel proposed .PUB and .COR and that
these basic categories were later made into .ORG 
and .COM.





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