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Mirjana Tasić lives and works in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. She graduated in 1970 from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the University of Belgrade. She soon began her professional career as a system engineer on mainframe computers.
It is little known that during the sanctions against SERBIA in 1992-1996, Mirjana Tasić made it possible for her to go out into the world with a small group of enthusiasts.
The first challenge on the road, which has lasted for more than 35 years, was the installation and maintenance of the EARN (European Academic and Research Network) hub in Belgrade. EARN was the first international computer network connecting academic institutions in Europe.
Everything worked well until 1992 when Yugoslavia received United Nations sanctions. Traffic to the EARN network is interrupted because the project of the academic network of Yugoslavia is treated as a project of the Government of Yugoslavia.
Therefore, she launched an initiative with colleagues from the Jožef Štefan Institute in Ljubljana, now the Republic of Slovenia, who were the bearers of the Yugoslav academic network project, to register the ccTLD.YU, which should represent Yugoslavia on the Internet.
However, colleagues from Slovenia did not understand the needs of the academic network in Serbia. The Republic of Slovenia registered its ccTLD .si but did not have the goodwill to enable the use of the .yu domain to the academic community in Serbia.
How to enable the use of the .yu domain. Mirjana begins the process to transfer the administration of the .yu domain to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which at that time consisted of the union of Serbia and Montenegro. From 1992 to 1994, he corresponded with John Postel about taking over the administration of the .yu domain. When the process was completed, providing the infrastructure on which the .yu domain would be functional was necessary.
In 2006, after the dissolution of the FR Yugoslavia, Serbia became a member of the UN, and the conditions were ripe for forming an organization that would take care of the new domain of the Republic of Serbia.
As acting In the fall of 2007, the director signed an agreement with ICANN on behalf of RNIDS.
Mirjana is still active in ICANN working groups.