[governance] [igdvd] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Jovan Kurbalija]

Dear Ronda,

Thank you for an interesting comment on the "convergence" of the medium. The
IG DVD will also be streamed via the Internet. There are a few reasons for
creating the DVD. The main reason is to make this material available to
users in developing countries (this being the main mission of both Diplo and
the UNDP APDIP). In spite of considerable improvements in many developing
countries, it is still difficult and expensive to access
multimedia-intensive content via the Internet.

I received many useful messages, links and pointers (there will be summary
message). Nevertheless... I still have not received an answer to my initial
question (what were the numbers and (names?) of the first ARPANet
computers). Diplomacy is getting strong competition! :)

Regards, Jovan


-----Original Message-----
From: igdvd at diplomacy.edu [mailto:igdvd at diplomacy.edu] On Behalf Of Ronda
Hauben
Sent: 06 October 2005 21:05
To: Jovan Kurbalija
Cc: 'WSIS Internet Governance Caucus'; Ronda Hauben; igdvd at diplomacy.edu
Subject: [igdvd] [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance


Dear Jovan

Is there some reason you are making a DVD instead of, or along with
putting the documents online at some web site that everyone has access
to?

Considering the public nature of the issues involved, it is important
there be public information available to people to understand the issues.

I have done quite a bit of research about the history of the development
of the Internet

During the early stages of development of the tcp/ip protocol, Great
Britain, Norway and the US were involved in collaborative research.

Great Britain at the time had its own way naming conventions.

Later they changed to adopt a common means of naming with the US.

It seems good you are making an effort to gather materials, but
the issue at hand isn't just the DNS functions, but how the Internet
infrastructure is to be managed.

To narrow the question to how the Domain Name System is managed is
or how some other system is managed is not getting at the principles
that need to be clarified.

We are working on an issue of the Amateur Computerist newsletter
that reviews some of the struggle and documents over the creation
of a management infrastructure, and then of ICANN.

We hope to have it available online soon, at least before the Tunis
meeting.

In it we will include an email from Ira Magaziner and an answer to
the email from before he created ICANN.

The way he mishandled the process of creating a tentative management
structure by creating ICANN instead has caused the current problems
and conflicts and left the Internet and its users without an entity
that solves the actual problem.

It is important this not happen again in another way.

There is a need for some serious consideration of the development
of the Internet and the model that emerges from that development
so that something better than ICANN can be created.

I have written at this in several articles a while ago, and I have
the proposal I sent to Ira Magaziner which I submitted to the WSIS
process.

There are a number of other documents I have, but it would be good
to see these gathered to be kept somewhere online, rather than
on a DVD that will only be available to some people, and that others
may not even be able to access if they don't have a DVD player.

Thanks

Ronda





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