<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div style="direction:inherit">On Aug 21, 2016, at 00:01, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div>After the session, a fellow in the audience (John Houlker) came up and </div><blockquote type="cite"><span>asked whether I'd like to meet the guy who put those pages up on the net </span><br><span>in 1990..</span><br><span></span><br><span>I had the great privilege of having dinner that night with John Naylor </span><br><span>who is quite a delightful fellow. He'd worked for the city power folk </span><br><span>back then and thought it quite natural to string a metropolitan area </span><br><span>network around town using the power lines...</span><br></blockquote><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">Amusingly, until I got down to your last two paragraphs I was also about to try and introduce you to Richard Naylor :-)</div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">I have been told that WCC bylaws and meeting minutes were also used internally at Apple (presumably around the same time) as examples of what government would look like in the future.</div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">But as you hint at with the brief mention of metro Ethernet which really nobody at the time was doing at Richard's cost-point, if you want to know what the future looks like, check what Richard is doing. Gopher, e-government, metro Ethernet, pervasive city-scale wifi and live internet video distribution are just easy examples and he doesn't seem to have slowed down at all. </div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">Joe</div></body></html>