Only 6 Domain names ?!?

At 10:53 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote: In as much as I'd love to see my alma-dropout-mater credited, I'd love to see a better history of DNS's development. These Internet timelines are endlessly copied and repeated without attribution or citations. Useless! Most of them say that DNS was first developed at UW-Madison (or I should say "the University of Wisconsin", which is sort of like the way people say someone's from the "East Coast" when they really mean "New York City".) Paul Mockapetris' name is on RFC 882. His bio doesn't say Madison: http://www.nominum.com/bio.php?id=2 Here's an interview: http://www.theregister.com/2003/06/24/dns_creator_considers_the_internets/ But I think the timelines must be referring to some previous DNS-like incarnation, perhaps a spin-off of some other project. I have vague memories of gasping in awe at 1+ meg net-wide 'hosts' files circa 1983 on VAXes running Unix at UW-Madison. The citations in those RFCs mention "The Design of the CSNET Name Server", with one of the authors being UW-Madison's Larry Landweber: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/ but even this bio doesn't claim a stake in DNS, at least directly. - John (Just old enough to have had business cards with bang notation for my email address.)