[discuss] - questions of consent and influence
Mike Roberts
mmr at darwin.ptvy.ca.us
Fri Feb 21 16:12:01 UTC 2014
In this calendar context, it is worth remembering that ARPAnet, CSnet, BITnet were all in their last days, and Gordon Bell and Steve Wolff and many others were hard at work on NSFnet. Al Gore's science staffer Mike Nelson was working with trade association and university people in Washington on a draft bill that became, years later, the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, the first legislation that mandated TCP-IP for federal use and created a $500M/yr budget line item for Internet related science and research. Subversive voices inside IBM were beginning to realize that SNA was not going to rule the world, after all. Dave Sincoskie at Bell Labs was waging a lonely fight against "studies" that showed one DS3 line was all the "Internet" would ever need. Dan Lynch, then of SRI, hosted a "Monterey East" meeting in a DC hotel that gathered much of the collective US Internet intelligence in one room and lead to the Interop trade shows.
The people at the California meeting were players in this upheaval of networking and sensed the need to put a more robust wrapper around existing informal practices...
On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:33 AM, manning bill <bmanning at isi.edu> wrote:
> Putting this answer back into the general flow…
>
>
> /bill
> Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
>
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>> From: manning bill <bmanning at isi.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [discuss] - questions of consent and influence
>> Date: February 21, 2014 at 3:31:35 PST
>> To: "Matthias C. Kettemann" <matthias.kettemann at gmail.com>
>> Cc: manning bill <bmanning at ISI.EDU>
>>
>> its the functional equivalent of the “napkin” used by Michel Dell. At one of the dinner meetings, the compact was scribbled on the paper which covered the tables. Folks signed it and
>> it was torn off. Jon had it framed and it hung in is office until he died. its quite fragile and is a very odd size. at the moment, I am in Australia and will be in KL next week & London the week after.
>> I will be in LA about mid-march and then back to Singapore. I will try to get a “clean” image. The compact is not formal in any sense of the word and may not be citable.
>>
>> The compact derived from Gordon Bells closing remarks as documented in the report:
>>
>> "There are several alternatives that would create the kind of direction
>> such an effort needs. One is to go into government mode, although this
>> isn't too appealing. Another is to create standards, probably through a
>> research and standards activity. This might be a democratic process,
>> for example, admitting switch suppliers, as well as users and carriers,
>> to attempt to build standards for putting together a network. By
>> working on standardization and research, an attempt could be made to
>> solve the worst problems. Still another option is to outline the
>> network and issue a request for bids."
>>
>> The agreement at the dinner table was to proceed with the second of the three options, to "create standards, probably through a
>> research and standards activity. This might be a democratic process..”
>>
>>
>> /bill
>> Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
>>
>> On 21February2014Friday, at 3:13, Matthias C. Kettemann <matthias.kettemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Bill,
>>>
>>> I'm working on questions of legitimacy and representation in Internet Governance from an international law perspective at the Unviersity of Frankfurt/Germany.
>>>
>>> Being able to cite the "document, signed by each of these people, representing their organizations, that they would respect and abide by the naming and numbering choices arbitrated by Jon" that you mention would be immensly helpful.
>>>
>>> I found the meeting report (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc-papers/arrowhead/report.txt) but can't seem to find a hint as to the paper you mention.
>>>
>>> Could you help me out?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, manning bill <bmanning at isi.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Reviewing the history of the gravitas that settled on Jon Postel in his role as IANA, a few things emerged:
>>>
>>> 1- For nearly two decades, there was tacit agreement by the developer and user community that Jon would act as an ombudsman, in Vint Cerfs words, “Our Boswell”
>>> To save time, the reference is to James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. (wikipedia)
>>>
>>> In 1987, there was the Lake Arrowhead meeting, <ADVANCED COMPUTER COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP> with the following participants from academia, business, and government:
>>> PARTICIPANTS
>>>
>>> Tony Acampora AT&T-BTL
>>> Gordon Bell National Science Foundation
>>> Craig Bender O'Dowd Research
>>> Ken Biba Biba Associates
>>> Dick Binder M/A-COM
>>> Dave Blauvelt ITT
>>> Len Bosack cisco
>>> Hans-Werner Braun University of Michigan
>>> Ross W. Callon Bolt Beranek and Newman
>>> Vinton G. Cerf NRI
>>> Greg Chesson SGI
>>> David Cheriton Stanford
>>> Wesley Clark CRA
>>> Danny Cohen USC-ISI
>>> Chase J. Cotton Bellcore
>>> Gary Delp University of Delaware
>>> Deborah Estrin USC
>>> David J. Farber University of Delaware
>>> John G. Fletcher LLNL
>>> A.G. (Sandy) Fraser AT&T-BTL
>>> Steven N. Goldstein NASA-HQ/MITRE
>>> Ken Ingram AT&T-BTL
>>> Richard Johnsson DEC-SRC
>>> Robert E. Kahn NRI
>>> Steve J. Lukasik Northrop
>>> Jim Mathis SRI International
>>> Dave Mills University of Delaware
>>> Jeffrey C. Mogul DEC-WRL
>>> Joel Morrow NYNEX
>>> Brendon O'Dowd O'Dowd Research
>>> Eli Pasternak Telestream
>>> Jon Postel USC-ISI
>>> Larry G. Roberts Net-Express
>>> Daniel Sheinbein AT&T-BTL
>>> W. D. Sincoskie Bellcore
>>> Dan Swinehart Xerox-PARC
>>> Jonathan Turner Washington University
>>> Dono Van Mierop Fibronics
>>>
>>> Some of these names/organizations may be familiar, some not so much. In the Postel archives, there is a document, signed by each of these people, representing their organizations, that they would
>>> respect and abide by the naming and numbering choices arbitrated by Jon. As far as I can tell, this is the first written agreement of the consent of the governed to abide by the choices made by Jon.
>>> This “tasking” was folded into the Tera Node Technology award from DARPA and then migrated via NSF to oversight by NTIA.
>>>
>>>
>>> So for me, two key elements of effective IG must include:
>>>
>>> - an ombudsman/boswellian role as documenting the authoritative state of affairs
>>> and
>>> - consent of the governed.
>>>
>>> Its hard to see both of these attributes in the proposals tabled to date.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /bill
>>> Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
>>>
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