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Netizens-Digest Volume 1 Number 318
Netizens-Digest Tuesday, July 13 1999 Volume 01 : Number 318
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[netz] The Internet is for Everyone (US)
[netz] Institutional Form for IANA
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Subject: [netz] The Internet is for Everyone (US)
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The Internet is for Everyone (US)
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/media/speeches/foreveryone.shtml
How easy to say - how hard to achieve!
Where are we in achieving this noble objective?
The Internet is in its 11th year of annual doubling since 1988. There
are over 44 million hosts on the Internet and an estimated 150
million users, world wide. By 2006, the Internet is likely to exceed
the size of the global telephone network, if it has not by that time
become the telephone network by virtue of IP telephony. Moreover,
tens of millions of Internet-enabled appliances will have joined
traditional servers, desk tops and laptops as part of the Internet
family. Pagers, cell phones and personal digital assistants may well
have merged to become the new telecommunications tool of the next
decade. But even at the scale of the telephone system is it sobering
to realize that only half the population of Earth has ever made a
telephone call.
It is estimated that commerce on the network will reach somewhere
between $1.8T and $3.2T by 2003. That is only four years from now
(but a long career in Internet years).
The number of users of Internet will likely reach over 300 million
by the end of the year 2000, but that is only about 5% of the world's
population. By 2047 the world's population may reach about 11
billion. If only 25% of the then-world''s population is on the
Internet, that is nearly 3 billion users or ten times the population
estimated at the end of the next year.
As high bandwidth access becomes the norm, through digital
subscriber loops, cable modems and digital terrestrial and satellite
radio links, the convergence of media available on the Internet will
become obvious. Television, radio, telephony and the traditional
print media will find counterparts on the Internet - and will be
changed in profound ways by the presence of software that transforms
the one-way media into interactive resources, shareable by many.
The Internet is proving to be one of the most powerful amplifiers of
speech every invented. It offers a global megaphone for voices that
might otherwise be heard only feebly, if at all. It invites and
facilitates multiple points of view and dialog in ways
unimplementable by the traditional, one-way, mass media.
The Internet can facilitate democratic practices in unexpected ways.
Did you know that proxy voting for stock shareholders is now
commonly supported on the Internet? Perhaps we can find additional
ways in which to simplify and expand the voting franchise in other
domains, including the political, as access to Internet increases.
The Internet is becoming the repository of all we have accomplished
as a society. It is becoming a kind of disorganized Boswell of the
human spirit. Be thoughtful in what you commit to email, news
groups, and other media - it may well turn up in a web search some
day. Shared databases on the Internet are acting to accelerate the
pace of research progress, thanks to online access to commonly
accessible repositories.
The Internet is moving off the planet! Already, interplanetary
Internet is part of the NASA Mars mission program now underway at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By 2008 we should have a well-functioning
Earth-Mars network that serves as a nascent backbone of an
interplanetary system of Internets - InterPlaNet is a network of
Internets! Ultimately, we will have interplanetary Internet relays in
polar solar orbit so that they can see most of the planets and their
interplanetary gateways for most if not all of the time.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it isn't affordable
by all who wish to partake of its services, so we must dedicate
ourselves to making Internet as affordable as other infrastructure so
critical to our well-being. While we follow Moore's Law to reduce the
cost of Internet-enabling equipment, let us also seek to stimulate
regulatory policies that take advantage of the power of competition
to reduce costs.
The Internet is for everyone, - but it won't be if Governments
restrict access to it, so we must dedicate ourselves to keeping the
network unrestricted, unfettered and unregulated. We must have the
freedom to speak and the freedom to hear.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it cannot keep up
with the explosive demand for its services, so we must dedicate
ourselves to continuing its technological evolution and development
of the technical standards the lie at the heart of the Internet
revolution. Let us dedicate ourselves to the support of the Internet
Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Steering Group, the
Internet Research Task Force and the Internet Engineering Task Force
as they drive us forward into an unbounded future.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be until in every home,
in every business, in every school, in every town and every country
on the Globe, Internet can be accessed without limitation, at any
time and in every language.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it is too complex
to be used easily by everyone. Let us dedicate ourselves to the task
of simplifying Internet's interfaces and to educating all who are
interested in its use.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if legislation around
the world creates a thicket of incompatible laws that hinder the
growth of electronic commerce, stymie the protection of intellectual
property, and stifle freedom of expression and the development of
market economies.
Let us dedicate ourselves to the creation of a global legal
framework in which laws work across national boundaries to reinforce
the upward spiral of value that Internet is capable of creating.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if its users cannot
protect their privacy and the confidentiality of transactions
conducted on the network. Let us dedicate ourselves to the
proposition that cryptographic technology sufficient to protect
privacy from unauthorized disclosure should be freely available,
applicable and exportable.
Moreover, as authenticity lies at the heart of trust in networked
environments, let us dedicate ourselves to work towards the
development of authentication methods and systems capable of
supporting electronic commerce through the Internet.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if parents and
teachers cannot voluntarily create protected spaces for our young
people for whom the full range of Internet content may be
inappropriate. Let us dedicate ourselves to the development of
technologies and practices that offer this protective flexibility to
those who accept responsibility to provide it.
The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if we are not
responsible in its use and mindful of the rights of others who share
its wealth. Let us dedicate ourselves to the responsible use of this
new medium and to the proposition that with the freedoms Internet
enables comes a commensurate responsibility to use these powerful
enablers with care and consideration. For those who choose to abuse
these privileges, let us dedicate ourselves to developing the
necessary tools to combat the abuse and punish the abuser.
I hope Internauts everywhere will join with the Internet Society and
like-minded organizations to achieve this easily stated but hard to
achieve goal. As we near the milestone of the third millennium, what
better theme could we possibly ask for than making the Internet the
medium of the new millennium?
Internet IS for everyone - but it won't be unless WE make it so.
Given by Vint Cerf at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy on April 7,
1999.
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Also in this issue:
- - UN ranks Canada number one again (Canada)
NEW YORK - For the sixth year in a row, the United Nations has
ranked Canada the best country in the world.
- - Pushed to the fore (Israel)
(July 11) - Part of BackWeb's success was its ability to reinvent
itself to adapt to the changing Internet Push technology. Now the
company's market cap has doubled as it approaches the $1b. mark.
- - Did you get my invitation? (Israel)
(July 11) - As the seasons change, so does the mail. If the advent
of fall brings in its wake a torrent of catalogs, June's own special
brand of mail consists of... invitations.
- - The Internet is for Everyone (US)
How easy to say - how hard to achieve!
Where are we in achieving this noble objective?
- - Search engines stall: study (Canada)
As the Web gets bigger, it's getting harder to find what you want
- - Jordan University, Cisco Systems to Prepare Students for Internet
Jobs (Middle East/Arab)
The Jordan University of Science and Technology and Cisco Systems
sign agreement to implement the first Cisco Regional Networking
Academy in Jordan: Major educational initiative for the IT industry
in the Middle East gains; United Arab Emirates University also signed
up to global program
- - Alliance attacks Telecom (NZ)
THE ALLIANCE has added its voice to the growing swell of
dissatisfaction with Telecom among Internet service providers.
- - Inspiration in Y2K brochure (NZ)
THE Year 2000 Readiness Commission will mail out 308,000 brochures
to small and medium businesses next week.
- - Hospitals pass Y2K failure test (Australia)
A check on medical equipment in Australia's largest hospitals,
including implanted devices such as pacemakers, has shown it will
not be affected by the millennium computer bug.
- - Week in Review
The Internet's top newsmakers of the week
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:21:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] Institutional Form for IANA
"Craig McTaggart" <craig.mctaggart@utoronto.ca> wrote:
A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 7/13/99 , Craig McTaggart wrote:
>
> >describes as ICANN making itself into an "International government for
the
> >Internet" is precisely what this whole process has been about: basing
IANA's
> >functions in an internationally-recognized, authoritative, stable,
> >non-governmental body.
>
> There is an incredible range of options within those general
> specifications. The "good NewCo" was that specified
> in the White Paper. ICANN has emerged as the antithesis.
It turns out there are *no* options except for the kind of
prototype my proposal to the NTIA proposed.
Who is it who is capable of cooperating on a basis of equality?
Not corporations. They have a pecking order based on power and
politics.
Only the scientific community was capable of creating the Internet,
essentially the scientific community backed by or supported by
or who worked as government officials.
Those folks are being blocked from being part of ICANN.
Instead of studying the Government and scientific structures
that have created the Internet and Usenet, these are being
dismantled and some old world form of outmoded and political
cartels is being proposed to replace the scientific institutional
forms have made it possible for the Internet to function.
>> Maybe this is inevitable when you move to a non-profit
>> (government or private sector) orientation - only in
>> the non-profit world you have fewer safeguards. Clearly
The non-profit institutional form is not appropriate
for the ownership and control of essential fucntions of
the Internet.
>> what we have here is little more than the gTLD-MoU
>> regime moved from Geneva and the ITU to California and
>> ICANN. The players, religion, and methods are all
>> pretty much the same.
I don't know much about the ITU but it is clear that that
is part of an international body and ICANN isn't.
ICANN's activity is secret government activity.
The problem with what has been done is that instead of
asking what needs to be scientific, what needs to be
government, what needs to be other sectores, ICANN
was created to void the legitimate examination of
these issues.
It was and is a power play of the worst kind by the
U.S. government officials involved and their advisors
whoever they be.
Otherwise they would have been open to ask the legitimate
questions and to find where the answers are to be found.
.
>Isn't it the "internationally-recognized and authoritative" part where
>governments *have* to be involved in some way? The only way the White Paper
>plan (which I liked) could work is with (a) the very active support of the
>USG and (b) the recognition of most of the nations which the Internet
>'reaches'. There are significant public policy issues involved now
>(although i expect that is one point on which we disagree sharply) and it is
>perfectly legitimate for governments to take part to ensure that their
>citizens' interests are protected and, yea verily, even advanced. ICANN is
>probably learning the contours of the support which it enjoys from those
>many governments right now, support which it desperately needs (where else
>is the next round of funding going to come from?)
Well ICANN can't learn of contours of government support because
it has been created to make that support in secret.
While I agree that governments need to be involved, I disagree that
this can be done without involving the scientific communities
in the various countries, those communities who helped to make
the Internet possible.
>The halcyon days of the Interent's homogenous research-oriented user
>community are over. This is serious business now and serious public
>interest issues are engaged.
It was never a "homogenous research-oriented user community" as
you say here. It is important to find out what it was and whether
what is was has to be built on rather than disgarded.
The fact that serious buseiness and public intereset issues
are involved are all the more reason that the computer science
community needs to be involved.
The Internet is not a "finished" entity. It is a complex
human computer networking system that needs top scientific and
grassroots science expertise involved in identifying the
problems and helping to figure out the solutions.
>However, the governance structures which we
>have now are essentially identical to those of 20 years ago. They have
>simply been scaled up and some contracted out.
No the governance structures are *not* identical to the ones
of 20 years ago.
A crucial aspect of the governance structure for the first
12 years of the life of the Internet had to do with being
a part of the IPTO institutional form.
That institutional form is gone.
That institutional form was very important in making it
possible for key scientists who are the Internet's founding
fathers to be able to do the work needed to create the
Internet and to solve the many problems of helping it to
grow and flourish.
There needs to be some understanding of that institutional
form to understand how to scale that form up. That institutional
form made it possible for people of different nations to
work together to build the Internet.
How this was done needs to be understood and the needed lessons
learned.
> Aren't the old governance
>structures simply incompatible with the Internet's new role? Clearly the
The problem is the exact opposite.
The old governance structures have been prematurely disgarded
and instead ancient structures from non networking political
ideological viewpoints have been transplanted as the future
for the Internet.
>proprietary-TLD people think so, because Postel wouldn't add their new TLDs.
>In fact, aren't they the ones who pushed this whole reform process in the
>first place? They want their new TLDs, but preferably not an effective new
>governance structure which recognizes the Internet's global significance.
No - it seems it is previous to that. That Postel as a government
employee was told that he had to be part of privatizing IANA.
Where did that directive come from?
It is interesting that the Internet Society has rejected any
of the papers that challenge the privatization which I have
proposed to present at INET meetings where the issue of
privatizing the Internet is a religion.
Instead of the Internet Society being a place where the
genuine questions of Internet development can be discussed,
a small group of people carefully control what is allowed
to happen. They are supported in this it seems by the U.S.
government as U.S. government officials and funding help
to make the INET meetings possible.
o
Other countries have had different views and when the INET
meetings are in those countries, like the meeting in
Canada in 1996, it is clear that the opinion of people
is not for an only commercial and buying and selling
future for the Internet.
But the U.S. government policy circles making the decisions
to create ICANN or to keep ISOC talking about privatizing
all aspects of the Internet -- these are *not* places where
the real problems are raised nor real efforts made to
find what the solutions will be.
Postel and IANA had means of taking into account global views
that ICANN will never approach. He was not the problem.
The investment community or whoever is behind the current U.S. governement
policy plans is who is at fault.
>I agree that the ITU is on one level a relic of an earlier age when national
>cartels carved up the global telecom market for their own benefit, but at
>another level they do know a lot about coordinating global networks for
>global benefit. If the ITU regime is so unpalatable, how about the WTO
>agreement on basic telecoms? Its Reference Paper
While the ITU is *not* the model for what should happen with
IANA just because IANA has to do with the Internet, while ITU
had to do with a world wide telephone system, national cartels
are not the horror that corporate cartels are which seems
is Tony's model.
Ronda
My paper about the development of the IPTO institutional
form is at
http://www.ais.org/~ronda/arpa_ipto.txt
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