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On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 6:20 PM John Lowry via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I always thought there was something in this speech that the missing
> history of the transition of the Internet should address.  Disturbingly
> from a movie titled “Network”.
>
> https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
>
>
> > On 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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