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

[Ian Peter]

John, to answer your question, although I note the discussion has moved on -

I do not believe there is a satisfactory single answer, and I think Daniel¹s
and Bertrand¹s inputs give reasons why this is so. We are dealing with a
range of global activities all of which contributed to what we now know as
the Internet.

If I may quote from a recent private email from Charley Kline, who is widely
credited as being the first person to send a message on the Arpanet:  ³ the
reality is that no single person or even small group of people created the
Internet. We can debate who made the major contributions to concepts,
implementation, funding, etc.²

And that¹s a much wider story than we can account for here,,,(and a pretty
interesting one as well!)

Ian



From: John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:46:42 +0000
To: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
Cc: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet origin (was: IANA contract to be opened
for competitive bidding on November 4)

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 Pouzin¹s work in France, Donald Davies¹ 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 I have an out of date paper on this at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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