[ih] Politics behind the Internet

[Bob Purvy]

digging a little deeper:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/272

Sets forth Network requirements, including: (1) fostering and maintaining
competition and private sector investment in high-speed data networking
within the telecommunications industry; (2) promoting the development of
commercial data communications and telecommunications standards; (3)
providing security, including protecting intellectual property rights; (4)
developing accounting mechanisms allowing users to be charged for the use
of copyrighted materials; and (5) purchasing standard commercial
transmission and network services from vendors whenever feasible.

(3) and (4) seem to have been bypassed back then.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM Leonard Kleinrock via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Good point. Al Gore Jr. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore> promoted
> all things Internet for many years while in congress (1977-1993) and during
> that time, as noted, he introduced and championed the High Performance
> Computing Act of 1991 <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991>
> after hearing a presentation by yours truly in 1988 of the CSTB report
> “Toward a National Research Network”  <
> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10334/chapter/1> ; if you look at
> the list of committee members of this1988 report, you will find a number of
> the same folks who are on this mailing list!
> Len
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 21, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > One thing to remember:  Sen. Al Gore SENIOR was a key proponent of the
> Interstate Highway System.  Sen. Gore Jr., followed in his footsteps in
> selling an "Information Superhighway" to the nation.
> >
> > Also... Brian's book is great.  (And not just because I wrote one of the
> chapters. :-)
> >
> > Miles
> >
> > Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> >> There was a lot of overlap with the political interest in high
> performance
> >> computing. In particular, the US High-Performance Computing Act of 1991
> >> (a.k.a. The Gore Bill) has a whole section on "National Research and
> >> Education Network".
> >>
> >> A good reference is "Building Information Infrastructure", Brian Kahin
> (editor),
> >> ISBN 0-390-03083X-X, 1992.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>    Brian Carpenter
> >>
> >> On 22-Jul-24 06:48, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> >>> I recall lots of talk about "the information superhighway," but it
> usually
> >>> wasn't very specific.
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM Vint Cerf via Internet-history <
> >>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> around 1996, Congress started to wake up to Internet - it had
> inklings as
> >>>> early as 1992 as domain names were offered for a price.
> >>>> Then Senator Gore understood Internet as early as 1986 and encourage
> its
> >>>> development. By 1996 the revision of the Telecom Act paid some
> attention to
> >>>> Internet because the WWW was booming. Limited or no regulation was the
> >>>> general posture of the day at that time.
> >>>>
> >>>> v
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 7:47 AM Gergely Buday via Internet-history <
> >>>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi there,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> when the American Congress realised the importance of the Internet?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Back in the eighties we were listening the Radio Free Europe on
> shortwave
> >>>>> radios. Congress supported that financially. Did it have similar
> thoughts
> >>>>> concerning the Internet, that it would spread freedom politically and
> >>>>> economically?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yours
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Gergely
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