Excerpts from A Brief History of the Internet (prepared for Diplo Foundation by Ian Peter, 2010) LESSON FOUR – GOVERNANCE Content Much like the Internet itself, internet governance evolved as needs had to be met, and began to involve stakeholders as they started to make their presence felt. In the beginning, Internet [...]
Excerpts from materials prepared for Diplo Foundation in 2010) LESSON THREE – PROTOCOL EVOLUTION, DEVICES, APPLICATIONS Content Core devices There is so much to cover with the devices, applications and protocols that made the Internet what it is today, and it’s going to be difficult not to be too technical! But lets start [...]
A Brief History of the Internet (prepared for Diplo Foundation by Ian Peter) LESSON TWO – EARLY GLOBAL GROWTH Content As Marshall McLuhan notes in his 1960s classic, “Understanding Media” “It is instructive to follow the embryonic stages of any new growth, for during this period of development it is much misunderstood, whether [...]
Excerpts from A Brief History of the Internet (prepared for Diplo Foundation by Ian Peter 2010) LESSON ONE – THE ORIGINS OF THE INTERNET Note – this lesson largely concentrates on the technical developments. Although the Internet cannot be understood from these, it will help to understand the multistakeholder and international origins of certain [...]
Here (over the next few postings) are some excerpts from articles written in 2010 for Diplo Foundation on Internet History A Brief History of the Internet (prepared for Diplo Foundation by Ian Peter) Introduction So you think you know a few basic things about Internet history? Then, lets try a simple true/false test [...]
This video is from ABC TVs 7.30 Report of September 14, 1989 launch of Pegasus Networks at Terania Creek Australia. Mark D Hayes is interviewing Ian Peter with Mike Jensen. During the interview I suggested a lot of people might be doing this in 10 years time!
Thanks to the great work of Imagining the Internet, I am happy to be able to post these links to the three workshops I was involved with at IGF 2009, along with summaries and videos. Thanks Janna and team for your excellent work – and thanks also to all the organisers and participants in the [...]
This year, the Internet Governance Forum will meet in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in early November. This is year four of this interesting United Nations sponsored event, and the first to be held in the wake of increased independence for ICANN. There is a lot on the program – here’s just a summary of some [...]
On packet switching The following email exchange occurred in April 2009, and was precipitated by a discussion I had with Jovan Kurbalija from the Diplo Foundation in Geneva. The discussion related to the role of Paul Baran in defining Arpanet, and the extent to which that may have reflected a desire to build a network [...]
It’s time we stopped talking about network neutrality and redescribed what we are trying to achieve here. The term has been distorted greatly to become a series of arguments about traffic shaping, network management, carrier profitability, and endless nit-picking technical arguments. This is distorting some important matters about the future of the Internet and only [...]