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@@ -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.