[ih] Hourglass model question

[Steve Crocker]

Thanks.  Key word lobbying.  I didn’t see anything technical.

Steve

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:56 PM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 7/5/2019 7:24 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> > With apology, what was USING?
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net
> > <mailto:jeanjour at comcast.net>> wrote:
> ...
> >     If collaboration of people was one of the main goals, why was USING
> >     turned off? That seemed to be a hot bed of collaboration with great
> >     potential.
>
>
> USING was the Users Interest Network Group.  I co-chaired it with Nancy
> Neigus, and the 'sponsorship' of Craig Fields, then of Arpa:
>
>       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc585/
>
> It was yet-another very early and spontaneous effort, with an initial
> task of figuring what it was for.
>
> The RFC summarized this as:
>
>     The group will devote itself to lobbying on behalf of user interests,
>     to promoting and facilitating resource sharing, to improving user
>     interfaces (support), and to studies of standardization.  The
>     ultimate goal will be provide users identification of, and
>     facilitated access to, whatever resources on the Network they might
>     wish to use.
>
> I've seen various explanations of why we shut down, but my own
> recollection is that we simply could not gain enough traction.  That is,
> not a broad enough based of community interest.
>
> d/
> --
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
>
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