Oh God, here comes round three. IAHC, ICANN and now the UN thing. Wonder what they're going to call it? I suggest "UNIAC".
At 08:37 PM 3/16/02 -0600, you wrote: >http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoethics/speech/kahn.htm >"In 1985, Dennis Jennings came from Ireland to spend a year at NSF leading the NSFNET >program. He worked with the community to help >NSF make a critical decision - that TCP/IP would be mandatory for the NSFNET program. >When Steve Wolff took over the NSFNET program >in 1986, he recognized the need for a wide area networking infrastructure to support >the general academic and research community, >along with the need to develop a strategy for establishing such infrastructure on a >basis ultimately independent of direct federal >funding. Policies and strategies were adopted (see below) to achieve that end." >... > >On October 24, 1995, the FNC unanimously passed a resolution defining the term >Internet. >... >Including amongst others Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker, and Jon Postel. Joining them later >were David Crocker who was to play an >importantrole in documentation of electronic mail protocols, and Robert Braden, who >developed the first NCP and then TCP for IBM >mainframes and also was to play a long term role in the ICCB and IAB. > > > > -- With foxes we must play the fox. - unknown /"\ / http://www.vrx.net \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / http://killifish.vrx.net X AGAINST HTML MAIL / [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (613) 473-1719 / \ AND POSTINGS / http://www.mbz.org http://www.dnso.com
