From: Suzanne Goldlust Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 15:39:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Content, clarity, and grammar edits to history.rst X-Git-Tag: v9.17.2~33^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6164e080f6da23cb8e14022c956cbe478a14408;p=thirdparty%2Fbind9.git Content, clarity, and grammar edits to history.rst --- diff --git a/doc/arm/history.rst b/doc/arm/history.rst index 2e4e5ef6f50..24ab2ae5d65 100644 --- a/doc/arm/history.rst +++ b/doc/arm/history.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ A Brief History of the DNS and BIND =================================== -Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name System occurred in +Although the Domain Name System "officially" began in 1984 with the publication of :rfc:`920`, the core of the new system was described in 1983 in :rfc:`882` and :rfc:`883`. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's Internet) became a testbed of experimentation @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ for developing the new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding, operational network environment. New RFCs were written and published in 1987 that modified the original documents to incorporate improvements based on the working model. :rfc:`1034`, "Domain Names-Concepts and -Facilities", and :rfc:`1035`, "Domain Names-Implementation and -Specification" were published and became the standards upon which all +Facilities," and :rfc:`1035`, "Domain Names-Implementation and +Specification," were published and became the standards upon which all DNS implementations are built. -The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was written in +The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves," was written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC Tops-20 machines located at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network Information Center @@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA). Versions of BIND through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David -Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial BIND project team. After +Riggle, and Songnian Zhou made up the initial BIND project team. After that, additional work on the software package was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment Corporation employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on BIND for 2 years, from 1985 to 1987. Many other people also contributed to BIND development during that time: Doug -Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom +Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom, and Mike Schwartz. BIND maintenance was subsequently handled by Mike Karels and Øivind Kure. @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Vixie became BIND's principal architect/programmer. BIND versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor, the Internet -Software Consortium, with support being provided by ISC's sponsors. +Software Consortium, with support provided by ISC's sponsors. As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of BIND version 8 in May 1997. @@ -80,5 +80,5 @@ BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated. No additional development is done on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8. BIND development work is made possible today by the sponsorship of -several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of numerous +corporations who purchase professional support services from ISC (https://www.isc.org/contact/) and/or donate to our mission, and by the tireless efforts of numerous individuals.