[ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7

[Dave CROCKER]

Some years ago, Jake Feinler said that there was a persistent, non-converging 
debate in the community about the TLD choices.

She asserted that there was finally some small face-to-face discussion where she 
ran out of patience and declared that the choices would be com, net and org.

I have a somewhat more vague recollection of her acknowledging that the 
question, then, was whetehr Jon would concur, and that he did.

d/

On 1/20/2010 1:18 PM, Bob Braden wrote:
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> internet-history-request at postel.org wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know why .com; .edu and .gov were chosen? I know it seems
>>> simple, but why .com instead of something like .biz?
>>
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> I recall seeing those TLD names on Jon's white board at the time. I feel
> quite certain that they came out of Jon's head, but were ratified by
> discussions with Paul.
>
> Bob Braden
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>

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net