[ih] Help identifying 1985 NIC

Bob Hinden bob.hinden at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 08:48:14 PDT 2017


Joly,

> On Oct 15, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I listened to the video, and to me it’s fairly clear he said SRI NIC.  To find out for sure, suggest you contact Shigeki Goto directly.

Bob



> 
>> 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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