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+.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+..
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+..
+.. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+.. License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+.. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+..
+.. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
+.. information regarding copyright ownership.
+
+.. History:
+
+A Brief History of the DNS and BIND
+===================================
+
+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
+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
+DNS implementations are built.
+
+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
+(SRI-NIC). A DNS server for Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet Name
+Domain (BIND) package, was written soon after by a group of graduate
+students at the University of California at Berkeley under a grant from
+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
+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,
+and Mike Schwartz. BIND maintenance was subsequently handled by Mike
+Karels and Øivind Kure.
+
+BIND versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment
+Corporation (which became Compaq Computer Corporation and eventually merged
+with Hewlett-Packard). Paul Vixie, then a DEC
+employee, became BIND's primary caretaker. He was assisted by Phil
+Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan Beecher, Andrew
+Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat Baran,
+Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe Wolfhugel,
+and others.
+
+In 1994, BIND version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Paul
+Vixie became BIND's principal architect/programmer.
+
+BIND versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained by
+Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor, the Internet
+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.
+
+BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a major rewrite of
+nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture.
+
+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
+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.