[ih] Help identifying 1985 NIC

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 20:25:02 PDT 2017


On 16/10/2017 14:53, Stephen Casner wrote:
> I don't remember the activities at ISI ever having been referred to as
> a Network Information Center, though.  

True enough, but I don't see how 'SRI' could be misheard as 'ASI'.
Possibly it was a slip of the tongue. I haven't watched the video.

> When did the SRI NIC end?

October 1, 1991 according to Wikipedia.

   Brian

> 
>                                                         -- Steve
> 
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Presumably, ISI NIC. That's what there was in 1985.
>>
>> Presumably, recorded in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc960
>> or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990
>> The CERN class Bs, which I expected to find in the 1985 list,
>> only appeared in 1986. I didn't find JUNET in either list.
>>
>> After RFC990, IP address assignments were no longer recorded
>> in the Assigned Numbers RFCs.
>>
>> Regards
>>    Brian Carpenter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/10/2017 14:16, Joly MacFie wrote:
>>> I am just doing some remedial work on the captions to the 2017 Internet
>>> Hall of Fame Ceremony.
>>>
>>> At https://youtu.be/U0AQ9lYgFRU?t=3264  Shigeki Goto says he obtained
>>> global IP addresses from ?? sounds like ASI NIC?
>>>
>>> Can someone clarify?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> joly
> 



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