Re: [ga] Re: IANA Report on .au (Australia)

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Patrick Corliss wrote:

> > > Upon its establishment in 1986, the .au ccTLD ...
> >
> > 1986 ? Wow !!!! While we Froggies were still mucking aroung with 9600 bps
> > BBS and modem ...
> 
> Actually I believe the date may even have been as early as 1984 !!

The Internet, and its ancestor the Arpanet, have been international for
quite a while. Checking the chronological RFC index at:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html

One finds:

RFC   1   Host software              April   1969
...
RFC 168   ARPA network mailing list  May     1972 
          includes addresses in Canada, UK and Netherlands
...
RFC 588   London node is now up      October 1973

This was long before TCP/IP (RFCs 760 and 761, January 1980) or the
current sort of DNS (RFC 819, August 1982).
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