Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:59:29 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top-level domains Message-ID: <3C1E3281.5A0E3CA1@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <9vkjth$2sc2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3C1DEF39.DE92F450@mindspring.com> <9vl05j$f6n$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3C1E17CB.5BD44972@mindspring.com> <a05101000b843cd704274@[10.0.1.22]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: [ ... ] > I know that there are some people in the Netherlands that were > very, very early onto the 'net (quite probably in the very early > 80's, before the DNS existed), and they should be able to shed some > more light on this issue. Talking to people who were actually there would be a good idea. [ ... ] Here are some good historical references to X.400 mail, OSI, and Europe: http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/staff/dwc/Version.Web/Chapter.1/Chapter1.htm (1994 D. Chadwick) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1160.txt (1990 Vinton Cerf) http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/setup/unix/part1/ (1991-1998 Chris Lewis) Here are some other interesting historical references: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/step/internet/intro2.pdf http://standards.edna.edu.au/reports/scopeattb.pdf http://www.w3.org/People/howcome/p/telektronikk-4-93/Dybvik_P_E.html http://www.house.gov/science/landweber_9-10.html http://www.wia.org/ISOC/itu_mission.htm http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/imr9306.txt http://www.ifi.uio.no/~oleha/Publications/bok.b.html http://www.traxon.de/brochures/icm_5.1_dec00.pdf http://www.infosociety.gr/infosoc/policies/tele/docs/testa.pdf Ah... here is a canonical reference to the use of X.400 and OSI, in European email systems: http://www.hypermail.org/rfcs/rfc1506.html (1993 J. Houttuin, Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne Secretariat) Obviously, you should know how to use search engines, too, if you need more references. As an incredibly amusing aside, this historical document talks about X.400 in a really derogatory fashion (it shows the US/Europe battle lines being drawn, but it also has a cute section: http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/back.issues/1992.volume.12/vol12.iss801-850 "Senator Albert Gore from Tennesee has repeatedly sponsored legislation that will eventually turn the major research networks sponsored by the U.S. government into a "National Data Highway System". I expect that this will be a cornerstone in a Clinton/Gore industrial policy program. Once the "acceptable use policy" restrictions are lifted from the NREN backbone, RFC822 mail will truly be the lingua franca of public and private electronic mail systems from FIDOnet to UUCP mail." Unfortunately, there aren't a hell of a lot of records from 1988 and 1989, which is when I was tasked with implementing serial communications software for use in accessing X.400 email systems, and network terminal GOSIP support for the U.S. OSI initiative utilizing Intel "OpenNet" protocol stacks on Prime, Unisys, SCO, and other systems (anyone else remember NVT or FTAM?). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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