<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Cool. Is there a way I could get in touch with Jake?</div><div><br></div><div>bb<br></div>
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Subject: Re: [ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7<br>
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net><br>
Date: Wed, January 20, 2010 5:19 pm<br>
To: Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU><br>
Cc: internet-history@postel.org<br>
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Some years ago, Jake Feinler said that there was a persistent, non-converging <br>
debate in the community about the TLD choices.<br>
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She asserted that there was finally some small face-to-face discussion where she <br>
ran out of patience and declared that the choices would be com, net and org.<br>
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I have a somewhat more vague recollection of her acknowledging that the <br>
question, then, was whetehr Jon would concur, and that he did.<br>
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d/<br>
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On 1/20/2010 1:18 PM, Bob Braden wrote:<br>
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> internet-history-request@postel.org wrote:<br>
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>>> Does anyone know why .com; .edu and .gov were chosen? I know it seems<br>
>>> simple, but why .com instead of something like .biz?<br>
>><br>
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> I recall seeing those TLD names on Jon's white board at the time. I feel<br>
> quite certain that they came out of Jon's head, but were ratified by<br>
> discussions with Paul.<br>
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> Bob Braden<br>
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Dave Crocker<br>
Brandenburg InternetWorking<br>
bbiw.net<br>
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