RFC1386 on The US Domain

"Joyce K. Reynolds" <jkrey@isi.edu> Mon, 28 December 1992 19:42 UTC

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

  
        RFC 1386:

        Title:      The US Domain
        Author:     A. Cooper & J. Postel
        Mailbox:    cooper@isi.edu, postel@isi.edu
        Pages:      31
        Characters: 62,310
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


The Domain Name System (DNS) provides for the translation between host
names and addresses.  Within the Internet, this means translating from
a name such as "venera.isi.edu", to an IP address such as
"128.9.0.32".  The DNS is a set of protocols and databases.  The
protocols define the syntax and semantics for a query language to ask
questions about information located by DNS-style names.  The databases
are distributed and replicated.  There is no dependence on a single
central server, and each part of the database is provided in at least
two servers.

The US Domain is an official top-level domain in the DNS of the
Internet community.  It is registered with the Network Information
Center.  The domain administrators are Jon Postel and Ann Westine
Cooper at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
Southern California (USC-ISI).

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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