This posting is not too relevant to the NANOG thread, but there are some places where IMHO the record needs to be set straight:
Alexander Harrowell wrote: > 025/8 Jan 95 UK Ministry of Defense (Updated - Jan 06) > NetRange: 25.0.0.0 <http://25.0.0.0> - 25.255.255.255 > <http://25.255.255.255> > CIDR: 25.0.0.0/8 <http://25.0.0.0/8> > NetName: RSRE-EXP > NetHandle: NET-25-0-0-0-1 > Parent: > NetType: Direct Assignment > NameServer: NS1.CS.UCL.AC.UK <http://NS1.CS.UCL.AC.UK> > NameServer: RELAY.MOD.UK <http://RELAY.MOD.UK> > Comment: > RegDate: 1985-01-28 > Updated: 2005-09-06 > > > Ah. I think you'll find this is a result of there being some legacy > stuff from before the UK NIC, Nominet, was set up in 1996. I don't recall this being anything to do with Nominet, which has never had any role in IP address allocation, only .uk domain registration. > Before then, > the de facto authority was the academics, JANET, working out of the > University of London Computer Centre. Hence cs.ucl.ac.uk > <http://cs.ucl.ac.uk> getting in there. The CS dept at University College London was an ARPA/SATNET research site long before the ULCC/JANET production folks had anything to do with IP in the early 90s. I think you'll find the above reference is to do with early research-project collaborations between UCL-CS and the military RSRE. > There are a few domain names in a similar position - post nominet, the > .uk zone was reorganised to assign 2LDs like *.gov.uk Most of the widely-used 2LDs of .uk existed pre-Nominet. > but there were > already a few 1LD .uk assignments, notably mod.uk <http://mod.uk> and > parliament.uk <http://parliament.uk>. I'm not sure if it's been cleared > up who is responsible for them. These are documented at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/sld/registrations/ To an "Internet old fart" like me :-), I think this demonstrates the importance of recording for posterity some of what went down in the early days. For those interested, we've been accumulating a series of presentations at UKNOF meetings about UK Internet history from people who were around during at the time, you can find these at: http://www.uknof.org.uk/history.html (might make sense for any follow-up on this to be on another list, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keith ISC/UKNOF