Internet Society (ISOC) - Address by John Klensin to the opening of the IGF. Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Address by John Klensin to the opening of the IGF Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, good morning I seem to be the odd person on this session's agenda since I do not have the privilege of speaking for a government or a large and important organization. While I do not bring greetings from an organization, I do, however, have some experience with the development of the Internet itself. Much of my long-term experience is with Internet applications—the protocols and interfaces that underlie the network that end users see, rather than the core technologies that connect countries and computers. I would like to thank the many people with whom I’ve discussed these topics in the last few weeks and the last 40 years for their considerable contributions to what I’m about to say, but time obviously doesn’t permit giving you a list.
There were serious discussions about multiscript naming and content, including the first of many proposals for how to do it, by 1972. Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet. The original ARPANET grew into the Internet. Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the ARPANET as the pioneering packet switching network, but soon to include packet satellite networks, ground-based packet radio networks and other networks.
The Internet as we now know it embodies a key underlying technical idea, namely that of open architecture networking. In this approach, the choice of any individual network technology was not dictated by a particular network architecture but rather could be selected freely by a provider and made to interwork with the other networks through a meta-level “Internetworking Architecture”. Up until that time there was only one general method for federating networks. The idea of open-architecture networking was first introduced by Kahn shortly after having arrived at DARPA in 1972. Four ground rules were critical to Kahn’s early thinking: Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet. By Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Lyman Chapin, 1992 Background The purpose of this article is to provide a brief description of the Internet Society and its goals and objectives.
It will function as a professional society to facilitate, support, and promote the evolution and growth of the Internet as a global research communications infrastructure. The suggestions and recommendations of all parties interested in the Internet are solicited to assist in making the Internet Society robust, productive, and structured to meet the needs of its members. The Internet Society The Internet is a collection of cooperating, interconnected, multi-protocol networks which supports international collaboration among thousands of organizations. Membership The Internet Society will be a membership organization with voting individual members and non-voting institutional members. Charter Support for Internet Technical Evolution Meetings and Conferences Information and Infrastructure Services Plans.
Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet. Vint Cerf, 18 July, 1995 A bit of history: The Internet Society was formed by a number of people with long-term involvement in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). As a result, one of its principal rationales was to provide an institutional home for and financial support for the Internet Standards process. This rationale still exists today. In 1990, it appeared that long-term support for the standards-making activity of the IETF which had come primarily from research supporting agencies of the US Government (notably ARPA, NSF, NASA and DOE) might need to be supplemented in the future, either because such support would diminish or that requirements would exceed the limits of available support. Even at that time, attendance fees were used in part to offset on-site costs which otherwise would have had to be borne by US Federal funding.
Starting in 1993, the Internet Society assumed its responsibilities under RFC 1602, and participated in various reviews of that process. Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet. In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks.
This was called the Internetting project and the system of networks which emerged from the research was known as the "Internet. " The system of protocols which was developed over the course of this research effort became known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, after the two initial protocols developed: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). In 1986, the U.S. "Regional" support for the Internet is provided by various consortium networks and "local" support is provided through each of the research and educational institutions. A great deal of support for the Internet community has come from the U.S.