[ih] Jon Postel's papers

[Eric Gade]

Vint Cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

Some of this is like available in Jake Feiner's
> papers now at the Computer History Museum as she worked closely with Jon on
> these matters.


In the summer of 2010, just as Feinler was processing her collection at
CHM, I used her papers in order to write my history of DNS. Her collection
proved invaluable. Even back then, however, I wished I could access
Postel's papers, at the very least in order to see the "other half" of the
conversations.

One question I had throughout my research was how influential the
international community -- or at least the then prevalent assumption that
some international community would subsume any Internet naming system down
the road -- was on the structure and administration of the DNS from the
beginning. There were some strong indications in the Feinler collection and
elsewhere about this, but I think there's at least a chance more can be
found in Postel's papers.

Jake seems like she printed off everything. Most of my digging was going
through reams of accordion paper of printed email chains (paper whose
perforation had never been broken!). Sometimes there were reports with hand
written notes on them. I think in Postel's case the best bet would be for
these kinds of notes, rather than any emails themselves.

I'd be curious to see if anyone gets access / what they are able to find!