Re: [DNSOP] rfc 952, rfc 1123 and 25 years of .com

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:39:43AM +0100, João Damas wrote: Thing is I had this vague impression that domain names weren't allowed to begin with a number until later than that. Upon checking, RFC 952, published in October 1985 had the starting-number restriction and it wasn't until RFC 1123

Re: [DNSOP] rfc 952, rfc 1123 and 25 years of .com

2010-03-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Andrew, can you perhaps email me the address of that list? el On 2010-03-16 11:42 , Andrew Sullivan wrote: Another place to ask might be the Internet history list, where people who remember some of the early decisions tend to hang out. ___ DNSOP

[DNSOP] Internet history list (was: rfc 952, rfc 1123 and 25 years of .com)

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:55:50AM +0100, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: can you perhaps email me the address of that list? Since that is already one of two requests I've had: List-Subscribe: http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history,

[DNSOP] trust-history-01 text changes

2010-03-16 Thread W.C.A. Wijngaards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Changes to trust-history draft that are to be done are listed below. There are no open issues that I am aware of. Section 3. * step 1. change: Otherwise, store the DNSKEY RR set as result to: Otherwise, store the possibly empty DNSKEY RR set as

Re: [DNSOP] rfc 952, rfc 1123 and 25 years of .com

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 7e9577aa-2fb1-4724-83b0-86aaaec9c...@bondis.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo =E3o_Damas?= writes: casually looking through what seems to be a list of the oldest .com registrat ion still around, I came across 3com.com, registered, according to whois on 1 1-dec-1986. Been a while :) Thing is I