Re: Pre-1997 TLD manager records

Vint Cerf via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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I have not gone back to look in this document but there may be some useful
information about the early days of identifier management to be found there:

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/creation-administration-unique-identifiers-1967-2017-18nov20-en.pdf

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On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 5:43 AM Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <
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> These steers are helpful particularly when knowing what NOT to expect.
>
> What I would particularly like to document is how domain registration
> records(which included ALL domains at this point) arrived at NSI, and in
> what form.
>
> And go back further in time, if I can.
>
> On 5/7/26 09:54, Andrew Sullivan via Internet-history wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:59:23PM -0500, Greg Skinner via Internet-
> > history wrot> You might try the namedroppers list archive <https://
> > marc.info/?l=namedroppers&r=1&w=2>
> >
> > Also, if you only knew about namedroppers from its association with DNS
> > working groups at the IETF, it was not only associated with that.  The
> > final break happened in, IIRC, 2010, but the association was not very
> > well formalized (which partly caused some of the sudden changes to the
> > use of the list).  So, don't assume that reading that will also catch
> > the relevant DNS WGs (in the unlikely event you did expect that).
> >
> > A
> >
>
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