[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

[Scott O. Bradner]

enum is well used inside telephone companies to do number mapping (or so I'm told)
but the public enum died because of privacy concerns

Scott


> On Jul 6, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Vint Cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> ENUM was supposed to help with that mapping but...
> v
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 2:59 PM Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 07:56:56AM -1000, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow
>> via Internet-history wrote:
>>> and let's not forget that in 1967 there was
>>> The Science of Microelectronics
>>> in *The President's Analyst, viz.: *
>>> "the Cerebrum Communicator or the CC for short"
>>> (for which there is an awesome demo clip) of at:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwF3dRJiS8
>>> 
>>> for anyone who has not seen this seminal film, it's a MUST SEE! :D
>> 
>> TPC.INT
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phone_Company
>> 
>> Interesting to see how E164 is still alive and kicking, primarily now
>> (IMHO) for
>> SMS authentication and not telephony anymore, but we still do not have good
>> mapping between E164 and Internet name spaces. I guess its part of the
>> great
>> divide (ISOC vs. Governments).
>> 
>> Toerless
>> 
>>> geoff
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:07 AM Don Hopkins via Internet-history <
>>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 6, 2020, at 17:25, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
>>>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 7/6/20 10:52 AM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I answered him that thirty years of the internet has been a
>> spectacular
>>>>>>> time of development. Can you imagine the word fighting the COVID-19
>>>>>>> pandemic without the internet? If there were no internet, there
>> could
>>>> be
>>>>>>> very little working from home, no online classes for students
>> stuck at
>>>>>>> home, no video communication with family and friends, much more
>>>> loneliness,
>>>>>> In 1992 John Perry Barlow called for "connecting every mind to every
>>>>>> other mind in full-duplex broadband. ... The creation of ... a
>>>>>> ubiquitous digital web, [for] ... telephone service, e-mail,
>> software,
>>>>>> faxes, ... 'video postcards', and, in time, High Definition
>> Television
>>>>>> as well as other media as yet barely imagined."  He called it The
>> Great
>>>>>> Work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Long before that, Licklider wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing
>>>> machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting
>>>> partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process
>> data
>>>> in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know
>>>> today."  (In "Man-Computer Symbiosis," 1960,
>>>> https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html)
>>>>> 
>>>>> And, of course, he's the one who wrote the famous "MEMORANDUM FOR:
>>>> Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network," in 1963
>> (
>>>> 
>> https://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
>>>> ).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Miles Fidelman
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Even longer before that, Mary Shelley wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> ???It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but
>> on that
>>>> account we shall be more attached to one another.???
>>>> 
>>>> And a bit later, Mel Brooks wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half
>> foot
>>>> long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME????
>> -Dr.
>>>> Frederick Frankenstein
>>>> 
>>>> -Don
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