[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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