[ih] History of .com seen by Verisign

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/23/2013 8:40 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domain-names/com/what-does-com-mean/index.xhtml
>
> Note that the genesis of .com (and the names for the alternatives) is
> different from what Feinler told here
> <http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2010-March/001297.html>


The Verisign article's attention to historical detail is nicely 
summarized by their using the term 'king' in place of the (numbers) czar 
term that was actually used.

It's almost interesting to wonder whether casting the RFC Editor as 
"shaping" the Internet is reasonable phrasing...  (We need to be careful 
to distinguish Jon's RFC Editor work from his many /non/-RFC activities, 
when considering this question.)

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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