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Quantock Hills, England: 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," Should be accessible soon, I'll use this video, history and recent legal developments in the course I teach at WUaS on "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University" ~ (Course & Syllabus) http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html (http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm), As I see it, both Scott Bradner and Jon 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

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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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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.



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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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