[ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4

[Vint Cerf]

I think we called jon the "numbers czar" until he adopted the IANA rubric.

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On 4/8/11, Bob Braden <braden at isi.edu> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
> Yes.
>
> I would agree that RFC 204 was the first published manifestation of Jon
> Postel's self-appointed
> role of registering protocol parameters for the ARPAnet (and later the
> Internet). Of course, he
> could not be the  IANA before there was an Internet... he would have
> been called the AANA?
> Jon started writing down numeric values in a notebook, probably more
> than a year before
> RFC 204.  Steve Crocker would probably recall.
>
> Bob Braden
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