<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I spent a fair amount of time with Katie Hafner when she was writing the book.  I think she did an excellent job with the big picture, the people and the organizational aspects.  She didn't really attempt to get down to the architectural issues in the protocols.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">If all of you have your druthers, what you want us old timers to write about?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Steve</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:37 PM John Levine via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It appears that sivasubramanian muthusamy via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:6.internet@gmail.com" target="_blank">6.internet@gmail.com</a>> said:<br>
>That makes it very important for the Internet Society to ask Steve, Vint<br>
>and others to document in greater detail, with documentation assistance<br>
>provided on the scale of a Book Publisher, how the Internet was built, ...<br>
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There are already quite a lot of books about the building of the Internet, such<br>
as Katie Hafner's "Where Wizards Stay Up Late."<br>
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Can you say which ones you have read, and what gaps you found in their descriptions of its history?<br>
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Regards,<br>
John Levine, <a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com" target="_blank">johnl@taugh.com</a>, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",<br>
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