Domain Name System Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

The first use of the Domain Name System (DNS) took place on 23-June-1983 at the University of Southern California School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Dr. Paul Mockapetris and the late Dr. Jonathan Postel are credited with developing DNS. All Internet users depend on DNS every time they access a web URL or send an e-mail message, because the system translates words into the numbers needed to locate Internet resources. Dr. Mockapetris, who is chief scientist and chairman of Nomimum, predicts a dramatic increase in the number of ways in which the DNS is used over the next five years. Mockapetris is now working towards the next generation of the DNS to accommodate the growth of IP computing and future applications, such as IP telephony and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, that will depend on the system.
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