network development History
2002-08-04 07:50:03
Past week shown that lack of understanding of the past and anachronisms
could harm the today debate. I would suggest we consider an History effort.
The very participants commonly writing their own mutually cross-checked
memoirs. A part from a pure historical aspect the rationale is::
1. we need cooperation here. Inappropriate comments down consider their
authors until corrected. Something logic permits in technical areas, but
impossible in historical areas. Helping avoiding them is making ourselves
a good service.
2. this is an unique opportunity for the historic science: historians could
be happy to help us and to monitor such an effort, developing new methods
for our time and for the nets.
3. we deal with decisions having a long technical + usage cycle. Only
History can deliver the experience we need to understand and to repeat
successes and to avoid errors.
4. we share different cultures and visions of the network. Helping them to
be better known and understood by others can only help a more constructive
and less emotional debate.
5. in many areas of the networks (WIPO, ICANN, alt(sic)roots, ccTLDs, GAC,
DNS, e-economy, protocols, etc.) history plays an important role as
legitimacy, jurisprudence, usage, etc. we need comprehensive pictures,
archives, comments by the concerned people; etc. to follow on them.
We could call and support a commonly accepted historians effort to build a
chronological tree from 1960 to now, where participants could attach and
cross-check recollections, provide archives and document the then
prevailing environments.
jfc
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