<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>This is cool, but since I'm a newb at this, I can't figure out how to read the documents. The headings don't make sense to me. Thanks again. This discussion has been too cool.</div><div><br></div><div>bb<br></div>
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Subject: Re: [ih] Dot Com etc<br>
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com><br>
Date: Thu, January 21, 2010 6:22 am<br>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com><br>
Cc: internet-history@postel.org<br>
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> > I wish I had copies of the email discussions between April '84 and October <br>
> '84<br>
> > but I don't. My guess is that the discussion was in NAMEDROPPERS but I<br>
> > only have a very limited archive of old NAMEDROPPERS email.<br>
> <br>
> <a target="_blank" href="ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/lists/1983">ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/lists/1983</a> and forward may help you<br>
> <br>
> they're also in mhonarc form at <a target="_blank" href="http://psg.com/lists/namedroppers/">http://psg.com/lists/namedroppers/</a><br>
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Hi Randy:<br>
<br>
This is wonderful! Thank you!<br>
<br>
A quick scan reveals some details. The big TLD shift came between<br>
30 April 1984 and 11 May 1984. A note from Jon of a draft of what<br>
became RFC 920 on 30 April still uses Grapevine-like naming. A note<br>
from Jon on 11 May 1984 has TLDs close to how we know them today.<br>
<br>
However, the May 1984 has some notable differences. .GOV and .EDU are<br>
there but there's .DDN (which became .MIL), .COR (for Corporate and<br>
become .COM) and .PUB (which became .ORG).<br>
<br>
Vigorous discussion promptly erupts on the list as the new idea is debated.<br>
<br>
But much is going on in the background and a quick read of the list<br>
suggests that only the creation of country codes came from public<br>
correspondence (I was reading quickly and may have missed things).<br>
<br>
In July 1984 we have a TLD list of ARPA, GOV, EDU, COM, MIL and ORG<br>
and 2-letter ISO country codes for countries.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Craig<br>
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