[ih] Msg from Vint inviting to join ISOC (Was Re: Very early days of the IANA)
Jorge Amodio
jmamodio at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 06:33:07 PDT 2011
Here are Vint's messages announcing and inviting to join ISOC and the
status update.
BTW, as far as I remember and from other records things started moving
right away after Inet'91, by the end of the year Tony Rutkowski was
already "Chair of Editorial Boards" (whatever that title meant those
days) working with John Quarterman and many others to produce the
first ISOC newsletter.
Regards
Jorge
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 20:17:27 -0400
From: vcerf at NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Internet Society Information
To: lacwe-l at BRFAPESP.BITNET, lacws-l at BRFAPESP.BITNET
Cc: isoc at NRI.Reston.VA.US
Message-Id: <9108302017.aa23701 at NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US>
X-Envelope-To: PETE at ATINA.AR
Status: RO
At the recommendation of Tadao Takahashi, I am sending`
the attached Internet Society information for your
consideration.
Sincerely,
Vint Cerf
THE INTERNET SOCIETY
Abstract
The purpose of this document is to provide a brief
description of the Internet Society and its goals and
objectives. It will function as a professional society to
facilitate, support and promote the evolution and growth of
the Internet as a global research communications
infrastructure. The suggestions and recommendations of all
parties interested in the Internet are solicited to assist in
making the Internet Society robust, productive and
structured to meet the needs of its members.
The Internet Society
The Internet, is a collection of cooperating, interconnected,
multiprotocol networks which supports international
collaboration among thousands of organizations. Because
of its current scope and rapid rate of growth, the Internet
will benefit from a more organized framework to support
its objectives. To this end, an Internet Society is being
formed to foster the voluntary interconnection of computer
networks into a global research and development
communications and information infrastructure. The
Internet Society will not operate the Internet. Internet
operation will continue to be a collaborative activity which
the Society will seek to facilitate. The Society will provide
assistance and support to groups and organizations
involved in the use, operation and evolution of the Internet.
It will provide support for forums in which technical and
operational questions can be discussed and provide
mechanisms through which interested parties can be
informed and educated about the Internet, its function,
use, operation and the interests of its constituents.
Membership
The Internet Society will be a membership organization
with voting individual members and non-voting
institutional members. There will be several classes of
institutional members. The society will produce a
newsletter on a regular basis and hold an annual meeting
to which all members and other interested parties will be
invited. The topics of the annual meeting will vary, but are
expected to focus on current research in networking,
Internet functionality and growth, and other interests of
the Society constituency. All members will receive the
newsletter and an invitation to attend the annual meeting
of the Internet Society.
Membership dues will vary according to class of
membership. The amounts of these dues and the basis on
which they are set will be determined by the Board of
Trustees of the Society and may be revised from time to
time as set forth in the By-Laws.
Charter
The Society will be a non-profit organization and will be
operated for academic, educational, charitable and
scientific purposes among which are:
A. To facilitate and support the technical
evolution of the Internet as a research and
education infrastructure and to stimulate
involvement of the academic, scientific and
engineering communities, among others in the
evolution of the Internet.
B. To educate the academic and scientific
communities and the public concerning the
technology, use and application of the
Internet.
C. To promote scientific and educational
applications of Internet technology for the
benefit of educational institutions at all grade
levels, industry and the public at large.
D. To provide a forum for exploration of new
Internet applications and to foster
collaboration among organizations in their
operation and use of the Internet.
Activities of the Society
a. Support for Internet Technical Evolution
The Internet Activities Board (IAB) has been concerned
with the development and evolution of architectures
supporting the use of multiple protocols in a networked
environment. The Internet Society will incorporate the IAB
and its functions into the operation of the Internet Society.
The Internet Society will work with other interested
organizations to support and assist efforts to evolve the
multiprotocol Internet. The Internet Society will use the
Internet Engineering and Research Task Forces to
stimulate networking research and facilitate the evolution
of the TCP/IP protocol suite and the integration of new
protocol suites (e.g. OSI) into the Internet architecture.
The Internet Society will work actively with parties and
organizations interested in fostering improvement in the
utility of the Internet for its constituent users.
b. Meetings and Conferences
Internet Society will convene an annual meeting and will
organize and facilitate workshops and symposia, jointly
with other organizations where appropriate, on specific
topics of interest to the Society membership. The annual
meeting will address issues of global and regional
importance to the evolution and growth of the Internet. In
particular, future INET conferences will be incorporated
into the Society's annual meetings.
c. Information and Infrastructure Services
The Internet Society will publish an Internet Newsletter
providing members with information about the
international activities of Internet constituents. In
addition, the Society will also provide assistance to and
support for organizations responsible for maintaining the
databases crucial to Internet function (e.g. the Domain
Name System, X.500 Directory Services, etc.) and
organizations concerned with the security of the Internet
(e.g. the Software Engineering Institute Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT) and its CERT-System).
The Society will assist in the development of educational,
advisory and informative materials of use to Society
members. Where appropriate, the Society will organize or
support activities which aid in the coordination among the
organizations operating components of the Internet.
The Society will refer members to appropriate parties
involved in operating the various parts of the Internet
where they may be helpful with specific questions. Where
possible, the Society would seek to provide access to its
information on-line, but would also offer hard copy and,
perhaps eventually, CD-ROM-based information resources.
Plans
The initial organizers of the Internet Society include the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI),
EDUCOM and the Internet Activities Board. During the
six month period from June - December 1991, the
organizers will work with interested parties to prepare for
beginning operation of the Society by the end of 1991.
Computer networking has become a critical infrastructure
for the research and development community and has the
potential to become the basis for world-wide collaboration
and cooperation in every field of human endeavor. The
Internet Society will seek to solidify, enhance and
encourage further international collaborative networking.
Individuals joining the Society during its formation will
receive special recognition as Society pioneers and will
have the opportunity to shape the early agenda of Society
activities. Opportunities for organizational and
institutional participation are also available.
It is time. The technology is available. A global renaissance
of scientific and technical cooperation is at hand. You are
cordially invited to take part in an enterprise without
precedent and an adventure without boundary. The
Internet Society sets sail in January of 1992 on a voyage of
internetwork discovery. Will you be aboard?
APPENDIX
A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks
Introduction
In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to
investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking
packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to
develop communication protocols which would allow
networked computers to communicate transparently across
multiple, linked packet networks. This was called the
Internetting project and the system of networks which
emerged from the research was known as the "Internet".
The system of protocols which was developed over the
course of this research effort became known as the TCP/IP
Protocol Suite, after the two initial protocols developed:
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol
(IP).
In 1986, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
initiated the development of the NSFNET which, today,
provides a major backbone communication service for the
Internet. With its 45 megabit per second facilities, the
NSFNET carries on the order of 7 billion packets per
month between the networks it links. The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
U.S. Department of Energy contributed additional
backbone facilities in the form of the NSINET and ESNET
respectively. In Europe, major international backbones
such as NORDUNET and others provide connectivity to
tens of thousands of computers on a large number of
networks. Commercial network providers in the U.S. and
Europe are beginning to offer Internet backbone and access
support on a competitive basis to any interested parties.
"Regional" support for the Internet is provided by various
consortium networks and "local" support is provided
through each of the research and educational institutions.
Within the United States, much of this support has come
from the federal and state governments, but a considerable
contribution has been made by industry. In Europe and
elsewhere, support arises from cooperative international
efforts and through national research organizations.
During the course of its evolution, particularly after 1989,
the Internet system began to integrate support for other
protocol suites into its basic networking fabric. The present
emphasis in the system is on multiprotocol interworking,
and in particular, with the integration of the Open Systems
Interconnection (OSI) protocols into the architecture.
Both public domain and commercial implementations of the
roughly 100 protocols of TCP/IP protocol suite became
available in the 1980's. During the early 1990's, OSI
protocol implementations also became available and, by the
end of 1990, the Internet has grown to include some 5,000
networks in over two dozen countries, serving over 315,000
host computers used by as many as 3,000,000 people.
Much of the support for the Internet community has come
from the U.S. Federal Government, since the Internet was
originally part of a federally-funded research program and,
subsequently, has become a major part of the U.S. research
infrastructure. During the late 1980s, however, the
population of Internet users and network constituents
expanded internationally and began to include commercial
facilities. Indeed, the bulk of the system today is made up
of private networking facilities in educational and research
institutions, businesses and in government organizations
across the globe.
The Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Networks
(CCIRN), which was organized by the U.S. Federal
Networking Council (FNC) and the European Reseaux
Associees pour la Recherche Europeenne (RARE), plays an
important role in the coordination of plans for government-
sponsored research networking. CCIRN efforts have been
a stimulus for the support of international cooperation in
the Internet environment.
Internet Technical Evolution
Over its fifteen year history, the Internet has functioned as
a collaboration among cooperating parties. Certain key
functions have been critical for its operation, not the least
of which is the specification of the protocols by which the
components of the system operate. These were originally
developed in the DARPA research program mentioned
above, but in the last five or six years, this work has been
undertaken on a wider basis with support from
Government agencies in many countries, industry and the
academic community. The Internet Activities Board (IAB)
was created in 1983 to guide the evolution of the TCP/IP
Protocol Suite and to provide research advice to the
Internet community.
During the course of its existence, the IAB has reorganized
several times. It now has two primary components: the
Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet
Research Task Force. The former has primary
responsibility for further evolution of the TCP/IP protocol
suite, its standardization with the concurrence of the IAB,
and the integration of other protocols into Internet
operation (e.g. the Open Systems Interconnection
protocols). The Internet Research Task Force continues to
organize and explore advanced concepts in networking
under the guidance of the Internet Activities Board and
with support from various government agencies.
A secretariat has been created to manage the day-to-day
function of the Internet Activities Board and Internet
Engineering Task Force. IETF meets three times a year in
plenary and its approximately 50 working groups convene
at intermediate times by electronic mail, teleconferencing
and at face-to-face meetings. The IAB meets quarterly face-
to-face or by videoconference and at intervening times by
telephone, electronic mail and computer-mediated
conferences.
Two other functions are critical to IAB operation:
publication of documents describing the Internet and the
assignment and recording of various identifiers needed for
protocol operation. Throughout the development of the
Internet, its protocols and other aspects of its operation
have been documented first in a series of documents called
Internet Experiment Notes and, later, in a series of
documents called Requests for Comment (RFCs). The latter
were used initially to document the protocols of the first
packet switching network developed by DARPA, the
ARPANET, beginning in 1969, and have become the
principal archive of information about the Internet. At
present, the publication function is provided by an RFC
editor.
The recording of identifiers is provided by the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) who has delegated
one part of this responsibility to an Internet Registry
which acts as a central repository for Internet information
and which provides central allocation of network and
autonomous system identifiers, in some cases to subsidiary
registries located in various countries. The Internet
Registry (IR) also provides central maintenance of the
Domain Name System (DNS) root database which points to
subsidiary distributed DNS servers replicated throughout
the Internet. The DNS distributed database is used, inter
alia, to associate host and network names with their
Internet addresses and is critical to the operation of the
higher level TCP/IP protocols including electronic mail.
There are a number of Network Information Centers
(NICs) located throughout the Internet to serve its users
with documentation, guidance, advice and assistance. As
the Internet continues to grow internationally, the need for
high quality NIC functions increases. Although the initial
community of users of the Internet were drawn from the
ranks of computer science and engineering, its users now
comprise a wide range of disciplines in the sciences, arts,
letters, business, military and government administration.
Related Networks
In 1980-81, two other networking projects, BITNET and
CSNET, were initiated. BITNET adopted the IBM RSCS
protocol suite and featured direct leased line connections
between participating sites. Most of the original BITNET
connections linked IBM mainframes in university data
centers. This rapidly changed as protocol implementations
became available for other machines. From the beginning,
BITNET has been multi-disciplinary in nature with users
in all academic areas. It has also provided a number of
unique services to its users (e.g., LISTSERV). Today,
BITNET and its parallel networks in other parts of the
world (e.g., EARN in Europe) have several thousand
participating sites. In recent years, BITNET has
established a backbone which uses the TCP/IP protocols
with RSCS-based applications running above TCP.
CSNET was initially funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to provide networking for university,
industry and government computer science research
groups. CSNET used the Phonenet MMDF protocol for
telephone-based electronic mail relaying and, in addition,
pioneered the first use of TCP/IP over X.25 using
commercial public data networks. The CSNET name server
provided an early example of a white pages directory
service and is still in use at numerous sites. At its peak,
CSNET had approximately 200 participating sites and
international connections to approximately fifteen
countries. Today, CSNET still provides services to a
number of industrial sites and small colleges.
In 1987, BITNET and CSNET merged to form the
Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
(CREN). A key feature of CREN and its predecessors is
that they were entirely dependent on voluntary user fees;
BITNET from the beginning and CSNET after the
expiration of its initial five year NSF grant.
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Announcing ....
THE INTERNET SOCIETY
* A new international membership organization to promote the use of
the Internet for research and scholarly communication and collaboration.
* A forum for government, industry, and individuals to debate and
formulate network policies and procedures.
* A focus for development and evolution on Internet technology
* A means to advance the sharing of open scholarship in all countries
THE INTERNET SOCIETY ....
- expects to begin operations by the end of 1991
- will be governed by an elected Board of Trustees
- will launch a global renaissance in scientific collaboration
Joining now will ....
- make you a pioneer member of the society
- entitle you to a member newsletter and a semi-annual journal
recording important developments in the technical and
operational evolution of the Internet
- help shape the international agenda for the Society
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please enroll me as a pioneer member of the Internet Society. Please
bill me for the $70 annual dues (note, these dues will cover the first
year of membership which begins in January 1992). I understand that
I may cancel membership with no obligation for dues after receiving
invoice.
__ Please add me to your mailing list and send additional membership
information to the address(es) below:
Name: ________________________________________________
Postal Address:_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
Internet Address:_____________________________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mail this form to:
The Internet Society
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA 22091
USA
or send to the email address: isoc at nri.reston.va.us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Further information may be obtained via the Internet by e-mail
requests to "isoc at nri.reston.va.us".
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July 1991
MEMBERSHIP IN THE INTERNET SOCIETY
for
Corporations, Educational Institutions, Libraries, and
Other Interested Organizations
The Internet Society is a new international membership organization, now
being formed, which will provide a focus for evolution of the Internet
technology, and promote the use of the Internet for research, scholarly
communication and collaboration.
The Internet Society expects to begin full scale operations by the end of
1991.
Your organization has the opportunity to become a Founding Member by
joining now. Founding members will receive special recognition in Soci-
ety publications.
Benefits of organizational membership include ....
discounts for selected Society functions and services
complimentary copies of Society publications
a representative on the Internet Society Advisory Council
Provisions of Corporate and Institutional Membership in the Internet Society
Founding Members
A Founding Member of the Internet Society is any corporation or other organizati
on
which provides a minimum level of financial support for the Society of U.S.$10,0
00
per year for the two year period 1992 & 1993, and maintains a continuing member-
ship thereafter.
Regular Members
Regular membership in the Internet Society is available to corporations or other
organizations that desire to advance the goals of the Internet and to contribute
to its
success. The regular dues for 1992 have been established at the level of
U.S. $10,000.
Non-Profit, Government & Educational Institutions
United States non-profit research and educational organizations and government
agencies, and organizations having equivalent status in other countries, are eli
gible for
a discount of 50% from the regular dues level.
Other Provisions
Corporate and institutional members may designate a representative to the Adviso
ry
Council of the Internet Society, which will meet at least once a year, and which
will be
charged with advising the Board of Trustees on matters of special concern to cor
porate
and institutional members, as well as on other issues of interest to the Society
.
Corporate and institutional members of the Internet Society are not eligible to
vote on
the election of Trustees or other matters of Society governance.
To Apply for Membership
Write or call:
Dr. Vinton Cerf
Internet Society
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100, Reston, VA 22091
Tel: 703-620-8990 Fax: 703-620-0913 Email: isoc at nri.reston.va.us
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Cc: isoc-interest at relay.sgi.com, ietf at isi.edu, iab at isi.edu,
iesg at NRI.Reston.VA.US, jif at isi.edu, tcp-ip at nic.ddn.mil,
isoc at NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Internet Society Status
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 92 18:03:38 -0500
From: isoc at NRI.Reston.VA.US
Message-Id: <9201021803.aa00106 at NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US>
Status: RO
Dear Internet Society members (and friends),
I thought you would like to know that the Internet Society has
passed a major milestone. The Charter members (RARE, EDUCOM and
CNRI) have approved the initial Charter which is attached. This
approval starts a process by which the Society will become fully
functional over the next several months.
A more complete Board of Trustees will be assembled and ratified
by the initial Board. This bootstrapping process will be replaced
by election of Board members by the individual members of the
Internet Society, beginning late in 1992.
The Board will also assemble and ratify initial officers who will
serve until the standard procedures for creating officers can be
invoked.
The Board of Trustees is expected to meet in June, 1992, at Kobe,
Japan, during the INET92 conference to ratify the Charter below
(or a variant if there is indication that any amendments are needed).
Comments to isoc-interest at relay.sgi.com are welcome. Questions about
membership (individual or organizations) should go to isoc at nri.reston.va.us.
More information will be forthcoming over the next week or so.
Happy New Year to each of you.
Vint Cerf
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CHARTER OF INTERNET SOCIETY
1. Name
The name of the Society is Internet Society ("the
Society").
2. Purposes
The Society has been organized to be a nonprofit
organization which shall be operated exclusively for the following
educational, charitable and scientific purposes:
A. To facilitate and support the technical
evolution of the Internet as a research and education
infrastructure, and to stimulate the involvement of the
scientific community, industry, government and others
in the evolution of the Internet;
B. To educate the scientific community, industry
and the public at large concerning the technology, use
and application of the Internet;
C. To promote educational applications of
Internet technology for the benefit of government,
colleges and universities, industry, and the public at
large;
D. To provide a forum for exploration of new
Internet applications, and to stimulate collaboration
among organizations in their operational use of the
global Internet.
The Society shall take such actions as may be necessary or
convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the
Society is organized.
3. Board of Trustees
The initial Board of Trustees of the Society are the
following individuals, namely, Juergen Harms, Robert E. Kahn and
Kenneth M. King.
4. Restrictions
No part of the net earnings of the Society, if any,
shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to, any of the
Trustees or officers of the Society, or any other person, except
that the Society shall be authorized and empowered to pay
reasonable compensation for services rendered. No substantial
part of the activities of the Society shall be the carrying on of
propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation.
The Society shall not participate in, or intervene in (including
the publishing or distributing of statements), any political
campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
5. Dissolution
Upon any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the
Society, after all of its liabilities and obligations have been
paid, satisfied and discharged, or adequate provision has been
made therefor, all of the assets of the Society (if any) shall be
distributed exclusively for such educational, charitable and
scientific purposes as the Board of Trustees (or such other
persons as may be in charge of liquidation) shall determine.
6. Amendment
The Charter may be amended by the affirmative vote of
at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees then
in office, except that unanimous consent of the members of the
Board of Trustees then in office shall be required for any
amendment of Article 4 or of Article 5 above or of this Article
6.
This Charter has been adopted by the initial Board of
Trustees of the Society.
Juergen Harms
December 24, 1991
Robert E. Kahn
December 16, 1991
Kenneth M. King
December 16, 1991
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