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TYPE: [Software] Domain Name Service (DNS)
DESCRIPTION: The Domain Name System was conceived in RFC (Request for Comments) 799 in 1981. The Domain Name System was conceived in RFC (Request for Comments) 799 the concepts and facilities required for an Internet Name Domains system that would eventually scale to facilitate addressing of “thousands of hosts”. Although a working solution to the much larger problem resulted, Mills initial intent was much more practical. “… The emerging intercommunity mail forwarding of the time was highly fragmented and ad hoc. Everyone knew that the mail world would eventually be fragmented according to conventional organizational principles. My interests [in creating fragmented according to conventional organizational principles. My interests [in creating forwarding principles for the Internet. Not the least of my concerns were the mechanisms forwarding principles for the Internet. Not the least of my concerns were the mechanisms recently commented. RFC 819, written by Jon Postel from the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC) & Zaw-Sing Su from Stanford Research the University of Southern California (USC) & Zaw-Sing Su from Stanford Research of the DNS structure and how it would allow for easier cross-network access. In November of 1983, Dr. Paul Mockapetris, also from ISI, published a request for comments to the Internet community entitled “Domain Names – Concepts and Facilities” as RFC 882 and “Domain Names – Implementation and Specification” as RFC 883. These two papers (later made obsolete by RFC 1034 and RFC 1035) outlined a completely new way of managing host name lookups. Most importantly, they included two very important concepts, delegation and authority. Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds wrote RFC 920, which outlined the groundwork that had to take place and set the rapid pace at which the change would occur. RFC 920 was also significant for another reason: it outlined the initial top-level domain names that would be added to the DNS when it was finally deployed. These included .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil and .arpa. The document also outlines plans for the creation of country- related TLDs using the two letter ISO (International Standards Organization) codes (becoming, .ca, .us, .uk etc) and TLDs for “multiorganizations” that called for the creation of TLDs for organizations that TLDs for “multiorganizations” that called for the creation of TLDs for organizations that can not be easily classified into one of the categories and is international in scope.” The concept of multiorganizational TLDs was later assumed under the .int TLD.
PARTICIPANTS: Dr. David Mills, Jon Postel, Zaw-Sing Su, Dr. Paul Mockapetris, Joyce Reynolds
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: DNS

TYPE: [Software] NewsPeek
DESCRIPTION: first personal newspaper that started the Personalized Media Group at M.I.T.
PARTICIPANTS: Fen Labalme (insert others here)
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TYPE: [UNIVERSITY GROUP] M.I.T. Personalized Media Group developed into Firefly (1996)
DESCRIPTION:
PARTICIPANTS: Fen Labalme (insert others here)
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