[97599] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: where the wizards stay up late
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Wed Jun 27 05:31:47 2007
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:00:32 +0930
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070627041643.GH9843@subspacefield.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:16:43 -0500
"Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org> wrote:
> Not sure if this guy is still with us, but wanted to read "Confessions
> of a Hearing-Impaired Engineer", if anyone has a copy.
>
I think you're probably talking about Vint Cerf, and he's still quite live, and
now working for Google :
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#vint
You might be able to email him to see if he wrote that paper (IIRC he
did) and may have a copy he can send you. A google search(!) should
probably produce a working email address. He may even lurk here.
>
> BTW, "Where Wizards Stay up Late" is an entertaining book about the
> origins of the ARPAnet. It even has some of the first (hand-drawn,
> natch) network diagrams...
>
> Apparently, nuclear holocaust considerations did not really play much
> of a part in ARPAnet's genesis, despite folklore to the contrary.
> Withstand a nuclear war was not a design consideration (for most of
> the key players); any such properties were side effects of the real
> design considerations and decisions.
>
Agree, great book, I think it should be manditory reading for anybody
who's running any parts of Internet. I think it always is useful to
know why certain things are the way they are.
Regards,
Mark.
--
"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
alert."
- Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
