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  54             Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
  55             System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
  56             core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
  57             883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
  58             Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
  59             new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
  60             operational network environment.  New RFCs were written and
  61             published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
  62             incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
  63             "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
  64             Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
  65             became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are
  66             built.
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  68 <p>
  69             The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
  70             written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
  71             Tops-20
  72             machines located at the University of Southern California's
  73             Information
  74             Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
  75             Information
  76             Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for
  77             Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
  78             Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was
  79             written soon after by a group of
  80             graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
  81             under
  82             a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
  83             Administration
  84             (DARPA).
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  86 <p>
  87             Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through
  88             4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
  89             Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
  90             Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
  91             project team. After that, additional work on the software package
  92             was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
  93             Corporation
  94             employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
  95             to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development
  96             during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
  97             Carl-Mitchell,
  98             Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
  99             handled by Mike Karels and Øivind Kure.
 100           </p>
 101 <p>
 102             <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
 103             released by Digital Equipment
 104             Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
 105             a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s
 106             primary caretaker. He was assisted
 107             by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
 108             Beecher, Andrew
 109             Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
 110             Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
 111             Wolfhugel, and others.
 112           </p>
 113 <p>
 114             In 1994, <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
 115             Vixie Enterprises. Paul
 116             Vixie became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s principal
 117             architect/programmer.
 118           </p>
 119 <p>
 120             <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
 121             have been developed and maintained
 122             by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
 123             the Internet Software Consortium,  with support being provided
 124             by ISC's sponsors.
 125           </p>
 126 <p>
 127             As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
 128             Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
 129             <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 8 in May 1997.
 130           </p>
 131 <p>
 132             BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
 133             major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
 134             BIND architecture.
 135           </p>
 136 <p>
 137             BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
 138             No additional development is done
 139             on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
 140           </p>
 141 <p>
 142             <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development work is made
 143             possible today by the sponsorship
 144             of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
 145             numerous individuals.
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