Mockapetris: Domain Names—Concepts and Facilities

What changed

Introduced the domain-style namespace, distributed name servers, resolvers, resource records, delegation and caching framework for Internet host, mail and other resource naming.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact RFC 882 of November 1983. RFC 883 implementation details, the revised RFC 1034/1035 specifications and operational DNS deployment remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact RFC 882 of November 1983. RFC 883 implementation details, the revised RFC 1034/1035 specifications and operational DNS deployment remain separate.

Contributors

• Paul Mockapetris · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• RFC Editor record for RFC 882
• RFC 882 full text

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