[ih] Snapshot of the Internet

[Vint Cerf]

see:
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/creation-administration-unique-identifiers-1967-2017-18nov20-en.pdf

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 5:10 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Yes, I pointed to that map because I found it thought provoking. It
> seems there should be a very interesting "History of the Internet"
> chapter on Governance - how the Internet was steered and developed into
> what it is today.
>
> IMHO, at the beginning of the Internet, governance was pretty much in
> the form of Plato's (and others') "benevolent dictator" structure.
> ARPA, mainly Vint and Bob, were the dictators, steering the Internet by
> controlling the purse strings of funding contracts.   That certainly
> changed as the 'net grew, other players joined, and other societal
> interests exerted influence.
>
> I have no idea how to describe Internet governance today, or how it got
> from there to here.  If someone writes that chapter, I'd love to read
> it....
>
> /Jack
>
>
> On 6/5/21 1:29 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > That's quite a map!!  Reminds me of the social clustering  maps I did
> > at UCLA. and Berkeley.
> >
> > I wonder what that map might say about the notion of governance of the
> > internet based on various kinds of "territory", whether those be
> > national, institutional (e.g. the "nation" of Google+Youtube),
> > protocol (IPv4 and IPv6  - which could be interesting if the
> > substrate, such as 5G were included), etc?
> >
> > The thought that crossed my mind was how we once divided law and
> > authority (at least in Europe) based on whether the matter or the
> > people involved  were secular or religious.  Could the Internet be
> > moving in a similar direction?
> >
> >     --karl--
> >
> >
> > On 6/5/21 10:24 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> >> This seemed like it might be of historical interest, and an
> >> interesting way to envision the big-picture state of the Internet today:
> >>
> >> https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-online-world-mapped-2021/
> >>
>
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