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Domain names come of age
June 2004
We are still in the Bronze Age of the Internet,
according to the man who created the Domain Name
System 21 years ago.
Dr Paul Mockapetris created the system of .com,
.org and .gov which end Internet addresses in 1983
while at the Information Sciences Institute at the
University of Southern California. Jon Postel
shares the credit for the system.
Mockapetris told the BBC: "Ten years from now,
we will wonder how it was so hard find on the
network too. At best we at the Bronze Age, we are
not even at the Iron Age stage in the network." He
believes in future all communication will be over
the Internet.
Mockapetris was one of the scientists working on
the forerunner to the Internet ARPAnet - the first
packet switching network funded by the Department
of Defence. He is now head scientist and chairman
of Nominum a DNS management company.
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