[ih] Re: [creation date for IANA?

[Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim]

"Eric A. Hall" wrote:

> Unless otherwise informed, I will assume that since the IANA acronym does
> not appear in any of the earlier RFCs -- including any of the assigned
> numbers documents -- that the office was established as the formal
> representation of the ISI function in 1990.

RFC-349 (30 May 72):
  "I propose that there be a czar (me ?) who hands out official 
   socket numbers for use by standard protocols.  This czar should 
   also keep track of and publish a list of those socket numbers 
   where host specific services"

Therefore, it has to be after 30 May 1972.

RFC-2441:
  "I find it funny to read in the papers that Jon was the director 
   of IANA.  Jon was IANA.  Much more important, Jon was the 
   corporate memory of the Internet, and also the corporate 
   style and the technical taste of the Internet."

RFC-2468:
  "When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol 
   identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later 
   the IANA once the Internet was in place."


I guess that there was never a "formal representation of the ISI 
function". But perhaps, it was stated in a federal contract
by the late 1980s or early 1990s.

regards,

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