Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!think!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ukma!david From: david@ukma.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Why @? (was NO NO NO NO NO, sort of) Message-ID: <6888@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:22:27 EDT Article-I.D.: g.6888 Posted: Thu Jul 9 16:22:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:53:57 EDT References: <8120006@hpfclp.HP.COM> <599@nonvon.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.csnet (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 29 In article <599@nonvon.UUCP> mc68020@nonvon.UUCP (root) writes: >> >> The problem is you are assuming a "bangist" world. The ARPANET (and now >> the ARPA Internet) has been using "@" for a long time already and they are >> officially sanctioned and supported by the Network Information Center. >> [ ... ] > OK! Who and WHAT is the Network Information Center. By what authority >does this organization "sanction" anything? I have been hearing references >to NIC for about a year now. I'd sure like to know who those Nazis are! Why, by their *own* authority of course ... :-) Seriously. The arpanet is where the domainist stuff was developed. The Network Information Center (better known as sri-nic.arpa or nic.sri.com) is the people who did the work to organize the domains and such. (sure, there were technical people everywhere working on it, but they did the political/administrative part of the organizing). Their name implies their function. They keep all of the information about the hosts and connectivity in the ARPA/Internet. They directly administer the top-level domain names and the second levels of the US domains (EDU, GOV, ORG, MIL, etc). They get to do this because the DOD hired them to do it. -- ----- David Herron, Local E-Mail Hack, david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet ----- {uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET ----- bsmtp-users@ms.uky.edu for bsmtp discussion ----- bsmtp-users-request@ms.uky.edu for administrivia