The team that put the Net in orbit

A new kind of network grew out of a novel public-private collaboration.
The New York Times

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INTERNET, CICRCA 2007: RIP

The researchers who built the original network believe that the NSFnet experience can be translated to advance the nation's science and technology policies more broadly. <br /><br />"The idea of network as a service was a new thing, and it was difficult to convince everybody a) that it was a good idea and b) that it was legal," said Steve Wolff<br /><br />"In that era the government said, 'Let's experiment and move everyone forward,'" he said. "If you had waited for a market, it would never have funded an NSFnet said Steve Wolff, director of network research at the National Science Foundation from 1986 to 1995"<br /><br />I have taken the liberty to quote liberally from the article to highlight the situation that obtained then, and now with copyright, intellectual property challenges, DRM, FUD, the shackling of P2P, Net Neutrality, the challenge of Big Biz (RIAA &#38; MPAA) to control the net, by getting the President of France to weigh in on their side. <br /><br />Quo Vadis, the Net?

[bhushan bhaagii]

INTERNET, CICRCA 2007: RIP

The researchers who built the original network believe that the NSFnet experience can be translated to advance the nation's science and technology policies more broadly. <br /><br />"The idea of network as a service was a new thing, and it was difficult to convince everybody a) that it was a good idea and b) that it was legal," said Steve Wolff<br /><br />"In that era the government said, 'Let's experiment and move everyone forward,'" he said. "If you had waited for a market, it would never have funded an NSFnet said Steve Wolff, director of network research at the National Science Foundation from 1986 to 1995"<br /><br />I have taken the liberty to quote liberally from the article to highlight the situation that obtained then, and now with copyright, intellectual property challenges, DRM, FUD, the shackling of P2P, Net Neutrality, the challenge of Big Biz (RIAA &#38; MPAA) to control the net, by getting the President of France to weigh in on their side. <br /><br />Quo Vadis, the Net?