[8810] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: III vs. GII
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rutkowski)
Sun Dec 5 18:45:57 1993
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1993 18:45:05 +0500
To: dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes),
From: amr@smtp.sprint.com. (Tony Rutkowski)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com (compriv)
Dave,
>In fact, because it is the *US* which is ahead in this networking
>technology, the Internet, and TCP/IP was 'invented in America' I
>can see *lots* of nationalistic resistance to US inspired global
>'one Information Age' talk. You think the French are going to lie
>down an accept even ASCII, 'American' Standard ... much less its
>protocols? Maybe in the computer engineer back rooms where there
>is a global fraternity, sort of, but as soon as it gets to the
>political front room???
This is really inappropriate. TCP\IP technologies have long since
belonged to the world. Indeed, the Chair of the Internet Architecture Board
is Christian Huitema one of France's most noted computer scientists
and head of research at the presigious INRIA. The Internet Society
which serves as the umbrella international organization for the
internetworking/Internet environment is governed by a Board of Directors
drawn from around the globe. Networks in 62 countries have IP connectivity,
in 92 have registered addresses, in 137 have at least e-mail connectivity. One
of the most ardent local supportes of Internet activies worldwide is a
senior official in the French embassy.
The most telling statistic is that in 1993 the average growth of networks
attaching to the Internet was 7.24% in the USA and 9.27% outside the
USA. At that rate, there will be more networks outside than inside
the USA by the end of next year.
Significant numbers of government officials in early every country now
realize the critical strategic importance of Internet connectivity and a
substantial knowledge base of internetworking technologies - and few are
interested in discriminating because the accident of its birthplace.
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