[ih] Dot Com etc

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Jan 20 11:47:16 PST 2010


    > From: bboliek at catalpacreek.com

    > noone seems to know exactly why it was chosen. Maybe Jon Postel, knew
    > but he's gone, of course. Joyce Reynolds may know

I have this bit set that it was Paul Mockapetris who picked them, but that
could be wrong. Certainly, they were in place by RFC-920 (by Jon and Joyce).
I would guess some combo of Joyce and Paul could answer this pretty
definitively.

	Noel



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