[ih] Question regarding history of .us ccTLD formation

[Joe Touch]

Vint - thanks for the following summary!

William - you may also want to review RFC-1480, which describes the US
domain and those processes.

Joe


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Joe Touch
Sr. Network Engineer, USAF TSAT Space Segment


Vint Cerf wrote:
> Jonathan B Postel served at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (and as
> the predecessor "numbers czar") from 1969 to his death in 1998. He was at
> UCLA for a time until joining USC/ISI probably around 1972 [you may need to
> check that]. He was under contract to DARPA to perform a number of functions
> among which were the editing of the RFC series and what is now called the
> IANA function (management of the domain name system, allocation of IP
> address space, and maintenance of the documentation of protocol parameters
> associated with the Internet Protocol suite.
> 
> Jon was responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System developed during
> the 1984-1986 period and instituted into operation in that time frame.
> 
> He adopted the practice of assigning country codes from the ISO 3166-1 list
> that included .us.  Jon personally delegated responsibility for the
> operation of top level country codes - often to universities in the
> respective countries. In 1998, Jon passed away and ICANN was created to
> carry out his work. ICANN has responsibility for delegation of top level
> domain operation. The US Department of Commerce issued an RFP for the
> operation of .US and selected Neustar to operate it. ICANN, on request of
> the USG, delegated operation of .us to Neustar. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internet-history-bounces at postel.org
> [mailto:internet-history-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of William J Corso
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:36 PM
> To: internet-history at postel.org
> Subject: [ih] Question regarding history of .us ccTLD formation
> 
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I am a student at Northeastern University in Boston, and I am trying to find
> someone to briefly speak with or someone who can direct me to some good
> resources regarding the ISI's role as well as the processes that took place
> in the establishment of the .us country code top level domain. I have read
> that the ISI was one of the initial organizations to be involved with the
> administration of the .us names. I would appreciate any feedback regarding
> this request as I feel this subject matter has been an important factor in
> the evolution of internet commerce.
> 
> Thank you,
> William J. Corso 

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