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

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Patrick,
1984 seems consistent with my own remembrance. Australia was quite 
advanced. If I am correct OTC had started the AusPac service a bit earlier. 
Any elements about that? I also remember FTCC having meetings in Melbourne 
around that date. OTC attended the Hong-Kong 1985 ISIS meeting (equivalent 
to the ICANN).

On 16:26 04/09/01, Patrick Corliss said:
>On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 18:31:44 +0200, Grégoire Seither wrote:
> > > Upon its establishment in 1986, the .au ccTLD was delegated to Robert
> > > Elz, a network programmer at the University of Melbourne.
>
> > 1986 ? Wow !!!! While we Froggies were still mucking aroung with 9600 bps
> > BBS and modem to modem networks (Calvacom), the Ozzies already had their
> > ccTLD.

Gregoire, Calvacom was a very local network!

In 1986 Transpac was by then the largest public X.25 network in the world 
both by traffic and by number of access ports.

Country codes on public services (3166 ISO was probably France as we used 
"UK" for the GPO service) started in 1977. France Telecom NTI started 
international service end 1977 or early 1978. You should ask Bob Trehin if 
we can find him around. AFAIK they were to start a test high-speed mux 
service at X-mas. There was a strike in NY so the mux never made it to 
Paris and Bob implemented a Tymsat by the Bourse. Then we had a Tymcom 
installed and they started selling public sync connexion services. I 
suppose it was the first complete international service installed by its 
own (UK had too but shared machines).

>I am on the Board of auDA but speak here in a personal capacity.
>
>Actually I believe the date may even have been as early as 1984 !!
>You may be interested in the following links:
>
>http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/OzIHist.html
>http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/LanceSep98.html

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