[ih] Fwd: Governments' Bureaucracy and The Internet

[Barbara Denny]

 A little bit more about the struggle with Norway's telecommunications state authority, televerket .
https://www.ffi.no/en/news/from-the-us-to-ffi-kjeller-was-first-online

barbara

    On Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 11:17:36 PM PST, Greg Skinner via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 Forwarded for Barbara

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> Not sure people know about this so I thought i would add it to the mix here.  This article sounds  pretty good.  Even though i did meet Pål,  i don't know much about the work.
> 
> https://btw.media/en/pal-spilling-cable-made-norway-reachable-vulnerable
> 
> https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/pal-spilling/
> 
> barbara
> 
> On Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 01:46:43 PM PST, Steve Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I can't speak about the role of the bureaucracy in creating the Internet.
> I saw a tiny bit of the bureaucracy during the creation of the Arpanet.
> 
> Two particularly relevant pieces of the bureaucracy related to the
> procurement of the 50 kilobit per second leased lines.  On the positive
> side, the government had access to a special price, I believe that made it
> possible use the lines instead of much slower lines and stay within the
> available budget.
> 
> On the other hand, the rules for ordering the lines included a nine month
> lead time.  That made it very hard to adjust to the occasional issues that
> arose requiring replanning the topology.
> 
> Steve
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