Fascinating Harvard Internet talk this morning with Scott Bradner, who was involved in the design of the Internet for decades.
Scott O. Bradner - "IANA: Important, but not for what they do"
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2016/11/Bradner
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Harvard Internet talk now with Scott Bradner, who was involved in the design of the Internet for decades #bkcharvardhttps://t.co/Nc44xM2F0F— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) November 22, 2016
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Harvard Internet talk now with Scott Bradner, who was involved in the design of the Internet for decades https://t.co/6xqhT8BfFH#bkcharvard— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 22, 2016
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It's video should be accessible soon, which I'll plan to embed here -
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As I see it, both Scott Bradner and John Postel were very much hippies in helping to design the Internet, and as such helped infuse a kind of hippy ethos into its governance and structure, of no one being in control, and Scott explains how this happened in part in his talk.
Jon Postel, an early architect of the internet who was to work with ICANN upon its 1998 founding https://t.co/gl69WZBPQf /Hippies /ITStudies— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 22, 2016
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I'll use this video, history and recent legal developments in the course I teach at World University and School on
Information Technology,
the Network Society, and
the Global University ~
(Course & Syllabus)
(http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm)
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