[ih] Very early days of the IANA

[Craig Simon]

Pointing out the earliest institutional reference to IANA in print is 
problematic since RFC 1069 lists a publication date of February 1989, 
while RFC 1083, though later in sequence, indicates publication in 
December 1988 and refers to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, but 
not the IANA acronym. Tedious stuff.

The Wikipedia entry does list one of the most important RFCs in that 
history... RFC 349 from May 1972, which starts, "I propose that there be 
a czar (me ?) who hands out official socket numbers for use by standard 
protocols"

IN RFC 433 (December 1972) he confidently announces himself as "The czar 
of socket numbers."

In practice, outright czarship gave way as Joyce Reynolds took on 
greater responsibility, and that evidently happened well before the term 
IANA appeared in print.

Craig Simon

> I went through the RFC series looking for IANA in order to get the
> timeline correct on Wikipedia. First mention of the term "IANA" occurs
> in RFC 1069 (1990).
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> RFC 433 was the first output from the registration function I could find.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority
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>> Craig Simon
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>> On 3/1/11 9:19 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
>>> On a website recently I saw a reference to the IANA pre-dating the
>>> Domain Name System -- that is, incredibly, that it was created in the
>>> early to mid 70s, when of course the DNS arrived in the early 80s
>>> following the ARPAnet split, and its original job was numbering and
>>> protocols only.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any material relating to the pre-naming existence of
>>> the IANA and its acquisition of naming related functions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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