[governance] Internet origin (was: IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4)

[John Curran]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Ian Peter wrote:

> The Internet was invented simultaneously in several countries as a cooperative effort ... . The sole invention of the Internet in the Arpanet computer time sharing experiments sponsored by the US Government is a convenient myth – Louis Pouzin’s work in France, Donald Davies’ work in UK, the private enterprise work conducted by John Schoch and others at Parc Xerox Labs, all of these have equally credible claims to the origins of the Internet. There are a few other more indirect claims as well which various historians are now beginning to write up. I have an out of date paper on this at http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html which I hope to revise one day as there are many omissions there.

Ian - 
 
   By your four criteria outlined in the paper (connection between networks, 
   involving computers, involving humans communicating with each other, 
   and an actual event), could you please indicate what event you feel meets
   these criteria and therefore qualifies as the "Invention of the Internet?  You
   outlined how several do not qualify by these criteria, but do not identify any
   event which does.

Thanks,
/John





	
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