Answering my own question (thanks to pointer from Patrick Jones)
For COM, NET and ORG that someone was the IANA acting on behalf of the Internet Community. Though I don't know what caused IANA to stick these names on a reserve list, was it an RFC, IETF discussion, or Jon Postel deciding it was a good thing, etc?
<http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg01156.html> Adam
Adam
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