Just as an aside on the 'czar' language, I've come across a very early hard copy draft of domain requirements (from 1982) where 'czar of domains' is crossed out by hand and replaced with 'registrar of domains'<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Craig Simon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cls@rkey.com">cls@rkey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Pointing out the earliest institutional reference to IANA in print is problematic since RFC 1069 lists a publication date of February 1989, while RFC 1083, though later in sequence, indicates publication in December 1988 and refers to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, but not the IANA acronym. Tedious stuff.<br>
<br>The Wikipedia entry does list one of the most important RFCs in that history... RFC 349 from May 1972, which starts, "I propose that there be a czar (me ?) who hands out official socket numbers for use by standard protocols"<br>
<br>IN RFC 433 (December 1972) he confidently announces himself as "The czar of socket numbers."<br><br>In practice, outright czarship gave way as Joyce Reynolds took on greater responsibility, and that evidently happened well before the term IANA appeared in print.<br>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I went through the RFC series looking for IANA in order to get the<br>timeline correct on Wikipedia. First mention of the term "IANA" occurs<br>
in RFC 1069 (1990).<br><br>RFC 433 was the first output from the registration function I could find.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority</a><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Craig Simon<br><br>On 3/1/11 9:19 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On a website recently I saw a reference to the IANA pre-dating the<br>Domain Name System -- that is, incredibly, that it was created in the<br>
early to mid 70s, when of course the DNS arrived in the early 80s<br>following the ARPAnet split, and its original job was numbering and<br>protocols only.<br><br>Does anyone have any material relating to the pre-naming existence of<br>
the IANA and its acquisition of naming related functions?<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br><br></blockquote><br><br></blockquote><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eric<br>