the dates are indeed similar.
They were indeed contemporary. And when I used them on DEC VAX, the
with the rest in quotes. Often the parser in the return made an absolute
mess with X.400 sourced emails.
it was :: all the way.
ps. the "transition" came when one ran TCP-IP over X.25.
Post by Vint Cerfdoes anyone on the list recall the rough dates for the "Colored Book
Protocol" ? Seems possible that these were at least contemporary with
DNS and UCL was confronted with the need to translate between those
and the ARPANET and/or Internet protocols of the time.
v
Also worth noting that in a May 1984 draft of RFC 920 (and a few
drafts prior to this going back to April), ISO-3166 was *not*
specified as a set for potential TLDs, but .UK *was* given as an
example. In fact, the inclusion of UK was used by many
participants discussing the draft to argue in favor of both a
country-based set of TLDs and a more generic set (note that these
early drafts used .PUB and .COR instead of .COM and .ORG). It was
sometime between May and July that the ISO list was proposed as
the ccTLD set.
Yes, Nigel, I should (for several reasons) have remembered that
comment in RFC 920, but my recollection is still consistent with that
document and your list. That timeline list is, IMO, extremely
useful
and far more accessible (and, IIR, comprehensive) that the Park
dissertation.
  john
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Nigel Roberts
Post by Nigel RobertsFar be it from me to be seen to clarify John's first hand
knowledge of
Post by Nigel RobertsRFC 1591, but it's worth pointing out that the decision to use
ISO-3166-1 was not first documented in RFC 1591, but already
in RFC 920
Post by Nigel Roberts(October 1984) as follows
Countries
The English two letter code (alpha-2) identifying a country
according the the ISO Standard for "Codes for the
Representation of Names of Countries" [5].
Post by Nigel RobertsAs yet no country domains have been established. As they
are established information about the administrators and
agents will be made public, and will be listed in subsequent
editions of this memo."
Post by Nigel RobertsStephen Deerhake and I put together an (as yet unfinished)
hyperlinked
Post by Nigel Robertstimeline of the DNS quite recently. Even though there are
some places
Post by Nigel Robertswhere the editing is still a little rough, I think there is
some useful
Post by Nigel Robertsstuff which is not easily accessible otherwise.
You can find it at http://timeline.as
It does need a little work, and we need to move it from
using TikiWiki
Post by Nigel Roberts(which seemed like a good idea at the time) to something
faster, but
Post by Nigel Robertsthere are some interesting things there...
Post by Patrik FältströmThe only explanation I got orally was that "GB stands for
Great Britain, while UK stands for United Kingdom of Great
Britain and the Northern Ireland".
Post by Nigel RobertsPost by Patrik FältströmThat was enough for me. Don't even remember who explained
it, but it was around the famous entry of .CS into the root
zone that created the "interesting" situation with
CS.BERKELEY.EDU <http://CS.BERKELEY.EDU> (and others) and
massive weird extra hacking in sendmail.cf
<http://sendmail.cf> due to the Janet "reverse" order of
labels in a domain name.
Post by Nigel RobertsLet me try an even less complicated one, based on what I
was told when
Post by Nigel Robertswe were evaluating what became the decision to use ISO 3166
alpha-2
Post by Nigel Robertscodes:Â Â The country code system started because of a
request from the
Post by Nigel RobertsUK to be able to manage their own DNS hierarchy rather than
depending
Post by Nigel Robertson a US-based organization to manage the TLD. The ccTLDs
are US and
Post by Nigel RobertsUK were decided upon (and possibly delegated) before other
administrative decisions about ccTLDs were made and "UK"
was what they
Post by Nigel Robertsasked for.
FWIW: (1) While RFC 1591 was not published until 1994, it,
for the
Post by Nigel Robertsmost part, described thinking and procedures that had had
been in
Post by Nigel Robertsplace for years rather than anything of significant that
was novel.
Post by Nigel Roberts(2) YJ Park, whom some of you may know, tried to sort
though all of
Post by Nigel Robertsthese issues and history while working on her
dissertation. The
Post by Nigel Robertssearch for answers to questions of this type might
reasonably start
Post by Nigel Robertswith her and that dissertation. That should lead to some
context and
Post by Nigel Robertsreferences even where she does not have exact answers.
   john
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