Hi, I know this is off topic for these two lists, and would therefor request only replies to my email address, unless this is found of interest. However given the accumulated centuries of experience here, and because this historic stuff might be quite interesting I felt I could be forgiven for trying :-)-O.
I registered .NA in 1991, but have unfortunately lost the emails from that time. I would love to reconstruct this, not only for my own personal use, but also, because during "work" in the ICANN ccNSO Delegation-, Re-delegation and Deletion Working Group where we are looking at current "policy" and "procedures" we found that we not only have no definitions what TLDs or even "domains" actually are, but we also do not really know how this all came about. I am looking for two people working at the DDN.MIL Hostmaster around 1990/1991, namely Sue Kirkpatrick, nee Romano and Douglas MacGowan, both of whom handled .ZA a few months before .NA and thus may be able to help (direct) my search. Thanks to Randy Bush kindly sending me some staff he had already in 2003 I remember that James Revell postsma...@uunet.uu.net who has retired as far as I know, forwarded the application and set up the name servers. I would *REALLY* like to get in touch with him and of course if someone who would know whether and how one can find records from UUNET's side could contact me would be appreciated greatly. Anyone else having information about how this was handled before let's say 1994 (when RFC 1591 became the guiding document), for any ccTLD is also more than welcome to contact me directly. Anyone who registered ccTLDs during that time and is willing to share the email correspondence would be also greatly appreciated. Should this be widely off topic, I apologize. el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Please do NOT email to this address Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ if it is DNS related in ANY way _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
